Re: hwclock --adjust in slink
Edit /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and comment out the line
with adjust on it. This is called when coming up and
going down...
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> >
> > I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time
> > after the system is shutdown?
>
> The following happens:
>
> I boot, find the time is lagging behind, and then do a
>
> hwclock --set --date ...
>
> This sets the BIOS clock (not the system time), as I can verify with
>
> hwclock --show
>
> >From the hwclock manual page I gather it is not adviced to run hwclock
> --hctosys on a running system, although I did it once and it worked
> (X11 went black for a few seconds, but it returned). I know that the
> hwclock.sh should adjust the clock and copy the BIOS clock to system
> time at boot time (the S..hwclock.sh script) so I reboot. If I reboot
> to windows98 first, I found that the time was NOT correct, and the BIOS
> clock was lagging just as much as it had been _before_ I set it with
> hwclock --set... My conclusion is that there must have been some
> process that did a `hwclock --systohc' during shutdown, but I cannot
> find any that does this in the /etc/rc?.d directories.
>
> > In any case, there are hw K scripts:
> > [18:17:27 /tmp]$ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw*
> > /etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh
> > [18:22:27 /tmp]$
> >
> > Note that your system somehow got S instead of K for rc0 and rc6.
> > I am running unstable.
>
> On two different systems running slink I only have the S..hwclock.sh
> scripts, so I guess this has changed in unstable. Having the K..
> scripts run at shutdown would give the symptoms I described, but my
> system doesn't have them, so I don't understand what is happening.
> I have version 2.9g-6 of util-linux.
>
> Eric
>
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> Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
> Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
>
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