On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: > Quoth Kevin O'Gorman: > > > > > > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: > > > > > Quoth Kevin O'Gorman: > > > > I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's > > > > clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock. > > > > Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup > > > > thats usually once a day (no fault of Linux, I just have to shut this > > > > off at night). > > > > > > Kevin, > > > > > > Did you ever get this straightened out? > > > > > > Kurt > > > > > > > Sort of, but it's a hack. > > > > I found that the /var/log/messages stuff started having two different > > timestamps starting partway through the boot. That was really odd. > > > > Details: my RTC is set to local time because I occasionally boot to > > Windoze. Timestamps were all okay up to where /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog > > gets run and tries to do the right thing with the clock, but from > > then on, the kernel reported times 7 hours off, presumably through > > klogd. Meanwhile other things continued to report the correct time, > > presumably through syslogd. All claimed to be PDT times. > > > > My hack was to put the line > > /sbin/hwclock -s --localtime # Local hack > > This sets the system time from the hardware clock. If you were > tinkering with KDE's clock setting function, undo it. I've no > idea _how_ to undo it, of course. Here at KurtWerks, I just point > ntpd at some public stratum 2 time servers and let ntp do the > grunt work. Then again, none of my machines ever boot Windows, > so I can set my hardware clock to UTC without worry that Windows > will helpfully reset it.
I probably was, but I don't know how to undo it either. I cannot even reconstruct what I did (one of the reasons I'm only lukewarm about GUI sysadmin tools unless they do really good logging). I may have to live with the hack for now. > > > in /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog as the first line of the start() function. > > I don't understand how, but that fixed it. What's really odd is > > that as I read things, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit should have already > > executed exactly that command. > > Odd. > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
