[George] > Hi, > > I have installed some workstations and unfortunately I cant use > netstart to make them boot in the morning. (Old switches). So I made > them start via bios start. Problem is the hardware clock get synced > at shutdown, but it does not get the proper timezone. Instead of > getting my local timezone they get the universal timezone.
Unless you dual boot with Windows, I recommend running the BIOS clock on UTC, not local time. Windows expect the BIOS clock to be local time, and get confused if shutting down before summer time kick in and boot after it kick in. Having the BIOS clock run on local time when it is unable to understand the time zone settings lead to such problems. > But the workstations get there hardware clocks set to the universal > time at shutdown, not the local time. Why? How can I fix this? Of > course I can set the bios start time two hours to early to > compensate, but that seems to be a bit of a hack. I am quite sure it is done at boot to, but worked around when ntp start a bit later in the boot. See the UTC setting in /etc/default/rcS to control how Debian handle the BIOS clock. The default is to believe the BIOS clock is running on UTC, which is my recommondation to you. > Another problem I noticed is that if you log in to a ws and then > logout again within a minute or so, and then you log in to the next > one (for testing purposes) you can do that about three times, and > then you get the dreaded message that it "cant mount home dir, using > /" preventing you from logging in for some time. Anyone seen this > and know how to fix it? Of course its not that big issue, since that > login behaviour is not very common, but I dont see why it happens. No idea. autofs must be confused, somehow. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
