Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 04:45:37 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c Message-ID: <199604010045.EAA01805@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199603312241.AAA01620@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Apr 1, 96 00:41:51 am"
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> > Basically, having symlink outside /etc is bad idea. > > Especially pointing to probably mounted /usr: your system date > > can be very damaged when remote NFS hangs on /usr/share f.e. > > Like /usr/sbin/rmt, or /usr/share/misc/terminfo, you mean? :-) Missing or corrupting or hanging on (via NFS) any of those files not critical, but missing/corrupting/hanging on /etc/localtime is very critical, because even RTC clock can be corrupted. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
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