cvs commit: src/sbin/adjkerntz adjkerntz.c

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:18:52PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-05-15 19:00, Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru> wrote:
> >On Mon, 15 May 2006, 17:27+0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> On 2006-05-11 17:25, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> >   1.30      +14 -25    src/sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz.c
> >>
> >> On 2006-05-13 11:58, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> >   1.31      +4 -4      src/sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz.c
> >>
> >> These changes make it impossible to run a new `adjkerntz' with
> >> an old kernel.  Since adjkerntz is one of the first things
> >> that need to be run before `make installworld' in single-user
> >> mode, do you think we should add an UPDATING entry that after
> >> this change people should install a new adjkerntz before
> >> booting into single-user mode?
> >>
> >> Otherwise, running `make installworld' may install files with
> >> timestamps that are several hours in the future, depending on
> >> the local timezone settings.
> >
> > Huh.  Saw this today 4am when reboot with new kernel and
> > thought that was hallucination.
> 
> Heh!  This is what you get for running installworlds at 4am or
> so, I guess.  I get that too often lately, so don't worry :-)
> 
> How about adding this to UPDATING then, everyone?
> 
> %%%
> Index: UPDATING
> ===================================================================
> --- UPDATING    (revision 75)
> +++ UPDATING    (working copy)
> @@ -21,6 +21,21 @@
>         developers choose to disable these features on build machines
>         to maximize performance.
>  
> +20060511:
> +       The machdep.* sysctls and the adjkerntz utility have been
> +       modified bit bit.  The new adjkerntz utility uses the new
                   ^^^^^^^
No cookie!  The rest looks good.

Ceri

> +       sysctl names and sysctlbyname() calls, so it may be impossible
> +       to run an old /sbin/adjkerntz utility in single-user mode
> +       with a new kernel.  Replace the `adjkerntz -i' step before
> +       `make installworld' with:
> +
> +           /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz -i
> +
> +       and proceed as usual with the rest of the installworld-stage
> +       steps.  Otherwise, you risk installing binaries with their
> +       timestamp set several hours in the future, especially if
> +       you are running with local time set to GMT+X hours.
> +
>  20060412:
>         The ip6fw utility has been removed.  The behavior provided by
>         ip6fw has been in ipfw2 for a good while and the rc.d scripts
> %%%

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                                                  -- Moliere
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