RCng/NTP Catch-22

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Oct 21 15:53:16 PDT 2004


In message: <20041021221715.GA4730 at odin.ac.hmc.edu>
            Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
: On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:06:23PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20041021152920.GB1811 at rogue.acs.lan>
: >             Mike Makonnen <mtm at identd.net> writes:
: > : devfs can't be
: > : run before NETWORKING because it depends on at least one binary in
: > : /usr/sbin. See my patch and reply to Andre.
: > 
: > which one?  devfs is in /sbin.
: 
: It looks like chown.  That one always suprises me even though I've hit
: it a number of times.  I think this is because you can't safely do
: anything involving user names before you have working directory services
: and you can't be sure you have those before you have user.  Hmm, I
: wonder what happens if you try to use chown when you have nss configured
: to use a directory, but don't have /usr mountd.

Maybe that's why the LOGIN thing was there before :-(

Warner


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