On Oct 11, 2002, 11:45 (+1000) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One problem with RH7.3 is that one needs to remove the > command 'hwclock --systohc' from /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt > otherwise it gets really confused.
... I'd be *extremely* careful with the hwclock version as shipped with the Redhat util-linux package ... The latest hwclock version for my Redhat 6.2 (upgraded with util-linux, but, as it seems to me, with a very old hwclock version inside ... :) that AFAICS came with util-linux-2.10f-7.6.2 didn't even understand the difference between plus and minus, at least as far as I understood the clock mess here on my machine some days ago ... It took me quite some time and head-scratching to find out why my clock was such a mess all of a sudden, until I found out that my old hwclock version (IIRC manually installed, and which ran good as hell here .... ) was replaced by another version when I upgraded the until-linux.rpm Here (on a RedHat 6.2) this new, not-with-util-linux shipped hwclock works well (at least until now): root]# hwclock --version hwclock 2.17 You can find it at ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware/ I took the tar-ball from (probably) there and (excerpt from the README): --------------------- Just install the executable file 'hwclock' and the man page file 'hwclock.8' in suitable directories (such as /sbin/hwclock and /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8) and you're ready to go. [ ... ] If you want to build Hwclock, just cd to the src directory and invoke make with no parameters. --------------------- So I didn't uninstall util-linux, but simply copied the new hwclock exe and the (compressed) man page over the old ones ... There are some indications to find out how old your hwclock is: If you do a "man hwclock" on 7.3, and if the date at the end of the page shows you something like "02 March 1998", and if I furthermore had problems with hwclock, then I'd get the hell rid of this hwclock now! ... :) .... The not-with-Redhat-shipped "man hwclock" and the date I see here is "29 October 2000" .... my (new) hwclock man page also tells me this this, nearly at the top of the page: ------------------ [ ... ] other options: --utc --localtime --badyear --rtc=filespec --directisa [ ... ] -------------------- If you don't see this "--rtc=filespec" option in your man page, then this probably, too, is an indication that you probably have, to say it politely, a not so new hwclock version on your machine ... :) (or perhaps simply a special, RedHat butchered version .. don't know) WARNING: It's perhaps possible RedHat made his own hwclock that you definitely for some reason or another should not swap for the new one above .. :) I don't know ... My apologies RedHat Inc., but I hope this helps you, too ... :) Regards Wolfgang -- Key on: http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/ Key fingerprint = 5FFA E2D1 6DB5 C023 0C5F 3FA7 4E08 5F9F 1560 0BA8 Home Page: www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/ -- END TRANSMISSION -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
