Re: RCng/NTP Catch-22

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:51:04 -0600 (MDT)
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
Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 20:53:16 UTC

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