You might want to take a look at the Clock Mini-HOWTO, hwclock and adjtimex about how can you try to keep your sys time right even if the machine is not 24/7.
> [...] > > > > 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. > > David Wright: > > They run all right. hwclock just precedes the random seed. > > > > So knowing I *had* to find something that runs it, I found: > > > > /usr/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz > > 5. Halt/reboot > > penultimate paragraph > > > > Then the /etc/rc6.d/SXXxxxx scripts will be executed alphabetically > > with "stop" as the first argument as well. The reason is that there > > is nothing to start anymore at this point - all scripts that are > > run are ment to bring the system down. > > > > Working out whether and when to run things like hwclock --systohc $GMT > > at reboot is something I've always meant to look at on a rainy > > afternoon. The trouble is, it's never rained enough! > > There I am, the rain in your life :) Great you found it. And it's a > good thing to know they decided to call them K..hwclock.sh in potato > anyway, for simple people like me that had the impression they understood > how sysvinit works. Anyway, I think I am going to get rid of the links > in rc0.d and rc6.d. They seem inappropriate for a system that is not up > 24 hours a day. > > Eric > > -- > E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
