On 10/03/2012 06:45 AM, jdow wrote:
> On 2012/10/02 22:09, g wrote:
>> greetings.
>>
>> in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a
>> 'clock factor' and controls the 'tick rate' for the system clock.
>>
>> is such a file used in scientific linux and what is it's name?
>>
>> tia.
>>
> Do you mean adjtime by any chance? Unfortunately the values in its
> fields do not seem to be well defined. It is part of the initscripts
> package.
>
> {^_^}it has been way too long that i used unix to say yes, but 'adj-time' does not sound familiar. there where no 'fields', as in linux's 'adj-time', only a single value that was over 10 digits long. as stated in orig post, it was used as a _factor_to_adjust_ the 'tick rate'. no speed up or slow down as 'adj-time' does. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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