On 01/01/2011 11:03 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:04:40 -0600 > Dan McGhee<beesn...@grm.net> wrote: > >> I'm just reacting to "the way things used to be." The title of Chapter >> 7.4 is "Configuring the setclock Script." The file created in this >> section is now named /etc/sysconfig/clock. I'm used to having it named >> "setclock." I couldn't find any mention of a change in the "Change >> Log." Is this now going to be the name of this script? > That file has been called clock for as long as I can remember. Perhaps > you're thinking of /etc/rc.d/init.d/setclock? > >> Additionally, I'm not used to having anything else defined in this >> script. So should the line >> >> CLOCKPARAMS= >> >> be commented out. > CLOCKPARAMS is not mentioned in /etc/sysconfig/clock, but it is > mentioned in /etc/rc.d/init.d/setclock. As it stands setting the > variable CLOCKPARAMS to null is safer than commenting the line out as > the variable CLOCKPARAMS may have been set in the environment for some > other use which may cause a problem for hwclock. > > Andy My router and I were not playing nicely yesterday and my reply to my own questions got lost somewhere.
I found the information I needed in Appendix D, "Boot and sysconfig scripts version 20100627." Another well of information that I hadn't used before. It's a great addition to the book. Andy, you're probably right about what I was thinking. Except for my very first build many years ago, I have "copied and pasted" the commands from the book. Soooooo....... Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
