Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep
*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>>*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>>> My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy.
>>> /etc/rcS.d has
>>> S20modutils
>>> S50hwclock.sh
>>> (among others)
>>> so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT.
>>> I have kernel 2.2.13 and "RTC stores time in GMT" set to "no" under APM.
>>> Did I forget to set "thip crinkle and spoit" to "no"? :)
>>
>>
>>Nope, it is a bug in the Debian package setup. If you wait to reboot
>>longer than your GMT offset then you won't get the warning, =).
>>See the bug report at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/53/53247.html.
>>
> Thanks for the tip. I tried renaming S50hwclock.sh to S20hwclock.sh
> and that seemed to work. Is this safe?
I don't see why not. hwclock lives in the /sbin directory so it will
be on the root partition along with /lib, so it should be able to run
before the rest of the filesystem is mounted in the S35mountall.sh
script.
But for some reason I feel like I am missing something as to why it is
setup the way it is. Anybody else care to add a comment on this?
Brian Servis
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