Re: setting time via network at boot

2001-10-08 Thread Richard Hector
[D'oh - it's bad enough replying to the user instead of the list under normal circumstances, but when replying to yourself ... :-) ] Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've got an otherwise OK motherboard that has a dead realtime clock. > > What I'd like to do is set the time from another ma

Re: setting time via network at boot

2001-10-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:54:55PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > I want to avoid having steps in my logs at boot time. Don't know that you can do that... Logging starts before the network does, so you're not going to be able to get time from the network without the activity being logged. > The

setting time via network at boot

2001-10-08 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've got an otherwise OK motherboard that has a dead realtime clock. What I'd like to do is set the time from another machine at boot time. What confuses me is that the kernel seems to have some idea of the time before the hwclock stuff happens from the boot scripts. I guess this is wher