Re: /sbin/clock missing?
Anthony Fok <foka@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
> On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote:
> > Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the
> > CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it?
>
> Yes! :-) /sbin/hwclock is the new program that replaces the obsolete
> /sbin/clock. The syntax is different too, so make sure you read the
> manpage. :)
Thanks! Actually the manpage says it has the same options for
backwards compatibility; just the same, I used the new -- options. I
run a cron job that grabs the date from my net gateway nightly and
then stores that in the hardware clock.
--Bill.
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