RE: netconfig not working

[Jason Corley]

Not to nitpick (or run too far off topic) but the mktime problem you're 
referencing has to do with Red Hat conforming to the RFC and having mktime 
return dates before 1/1/1970 as an error (-1).  The problem with this 
conformance is that most other distros -- Debian as you point out being one -- 
haven't adopted the standard behavior (I would assume they're waiting for their 
next major revisions to come into compliance).  This is not a case of Red Hat 
jumping the CVS gun, but conforming to defined standards.  Ok, I just had to 
jump in there.  Sorry for being offtopic.
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From:   Adrian Phillips [mailto:a.phillips@dnmi.no]
Sent:   Fri 5/24/2002 8:49 AM
To:     Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no
Cc:     alain@dragon.xs4all.nl; help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject:        Re: netconfig not working

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> writes:

    Mark> This mail doesn't make much sense to me,I'm afraid. It is
    Mark> hard to see what is going on here.

The only additional comment I have is that Redhat's glibc 2.2.5 may
not be the same as Debian's. Certainly a postgresql mktime problem has
appeared which Debian's 2.2.5 has no problems, but Redhat's does
(because its been changed in CVS and somebody included the CVS version
in Redhat). Whether this has any applicability to this case I have no
idea and no time currently to debug it,

    Mark> As regards ifconf in general, I think a radically different
    Mark> approach will be needed in future. THese ioctl calls are
    Mark> unreliable and non-standard, and they don't support ipv6.

Is there a "standard" way of configuring Unix networks ?

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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