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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 1996 01:55:18 -4400 (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:  <199603312155.BAA01325@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199603312031.WAA00808@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Mar 31, 96 10:31:00 pm"

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> (Moved to -current, where this better fits.)
> 
> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > I think this is reasonable.  If I'm running single-user with nothing
> > but root mounted, I *expect* some things not to work quite right.  I
> > can't run vi very nicely without my /var mounted either, for that
> > matter, and I usually find this far more objectionable than the
> > timezone being set wrong.
> 
> Funny you should mention this -- vi needs /usr/share/misc/termcap as
> well. :-))  I hope we won't install termcap directly into /etc now...

If you can't start vi due to missing termcap,
it isn't dangerous at all. But when your /etc/localtime
is missing or clobbered by NFS, it really dangerous because even
BIOS clock can be changed to wrong value!

-- 
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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