tkevans@wb3ffv.UUCP (Tim Evans ) (08/15/88)
Thanks to all who responded to my request for help in disabling the prompt for confirmation of the date at bootup time in SysV/AT. Everyone had basically the same suggestion, which was to work around the shell script /etc/bsetdate. The idea is to just extract the date from the CMOS clock, without being prompted to confirm it. Best suggestion is simply to comment out everything in /etc/bsetdate EXCEPT for the line which gets the date from CMOS: date `/etc/setup -d` John Plocher at uport has asked for a poll of whether they should continue with this prompt or just go ahead with bootup. (Send him your vote via e-mail.) My vote was to straddle the fence by continuing with the prompt, but building in a timeout so that an unattended system (which was my original problem) can bootup on its own after a power interruption--EVEN if the date is wrong.