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If one by accident gets the system clock set to some time far out in the future, boots the system (thus having /sbin/hwclock --adjust run by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit), then reboots and sets the clock back using the BIOS. After this the system will hang at boot time when hwclock --adjust tries to wait several years to catch up on the time.
And you expect the software to do what? :-) ------- Additional Comments From 06/14/99 13:07 ------- I expect it to detect that it is about to wait for ages and let the user know, ideally it should print a warning message if it believes it is about to wait for more than say 1 minute. I can solve this kind of problem myself, but to be frank, I doubt that the average user will be able to figure out what is wrong and fix it. I am sure your support people will love trying to figure out the problem if they get a customer calling on this one.