From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <616b0dcd8408e8e1ba41c22f57472b38@plan9.bell-labs.com>
From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] another termrc gripe
In-Reply-To: <001501c330b0$918844b0$3f07010a@bl.belllabs.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="upas-hctkcaezxeroyaucfuuaeourcx"
Date: Wed,  6 Aug 2003 08:53:36 -0400
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 136ed592-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--upas-hctkcaezxeroyaucfuuaeourcx
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I changed the variable to TIMESYNCARGS (default -rLa1000000)
so that you can set anything you want in termrc.local.
I didn't do a USEDHCP because I think you should just do the ipconfig (or ppp)
in termrc.local if you're going to do that.  At least that's
what I do and it works quite well.
--upas-hctkcaezxeroyaucfuuaeourcx
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Disposition: inline

Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Thu Jun 12 03:27:38 EDT 2003
Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Thu Jun 12 03:27:36 EDT 2003
Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6])
	by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP
	id A964019A8A; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:27:21 -0400 (EDT)
Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Received: from s-utl01-dapop.smtp.stsn.com (p4.n-dapop03.stsn.com [63.241.218.4])
	by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9533A199B6
	for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:27:00 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from PRESTOT23 ([10.1.7.63]) by s-utl01-dapop.smtp.stsn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329);
	 Thu, 12 Jun 2003 02:30:21 -0500
Message-ID: <001501c330b0$918844b0$3f07010a@bl.belllabs.com>
From: "david presotto" <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
References: <20030612034038.10370.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] another termrc gripe
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jun 2003 07:30:22.0093 (UTC) FILETIME=[7B82EBD0:01C330B4]
Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu
Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu
X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu>
List-Archive: <https://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:02:20 -0400

I'll do it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Schwartz" <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:40 PM
Subject: [9fans] another termrc gripe


> Right now termrc unconditionally tells
> timesync to assume the rtc is not GMT.
> Writing
> aux/timesync -r $TIMESYNCGMT -a $TIMESYNCACCURACY
> would let us set TIMESYNCGMT in termrc.local.
>
> A similar environment variable, $USEDHCP say,
> could control how ipconfig is launched.
>
> I do wish rc had non-env variables, because
> otherwise these things leak into /env.
>
>
--upas-hctkcaezxeroyaucfuuaeourcx--