On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 01:28:11 -0700 Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:58:51AM -0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > > > > Now that we're no longer in summer time in the Makefile for > > LFS-Bootscripts-3.2.1 there are no rules to install setclock during a > > reboot or shutdown. So the hardware clock is not being synchronised with > > the system clock. > > It is not safe to assume that the system clock is more accurate than the > hwclock unless you are syncing to a time server which is why BLFS adds > the needed symlinks *after* NTP is installed and configured.
Which probably means that a note to that effect should be in LFS page 7.5 , since not everyone will use BLFS, or even if they do, use ntp (I use chrony, for instance). I know that the referred hint mentions it (just, in a note), but IMO that isn't sufficient. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
