Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-11 Thread David Teague
Carl: I set the date in the BIOS directly, now all that stuff, appartenly icluding mktime, all seem to WORK! Many thanks! David On 10 Feb 2000, Carl Johnson wrote: David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin and Nate: Thanks for the suggestions. I'll live with the problem until I

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-10 Thread Kevin A. Foss
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:54:59PM -0500, David Teague wrote: The machine is quite old, still has an ISA bus, circa 1993, running Linux 2.0. Ihe hwclock version is ... lesseee # hwclock --show mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. # hwclock --version hwclock 2.1/util-linux 2.6

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-09 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin A. Foss wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:14:24PM -0500, David Teague wrote: My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. [...] gandalf# /sbin/hwclock -w mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1).

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, David Teague wrote: dbt # hwclock --show dbt mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. dbt # hwclock --version dbt hwclock 2.1/util-linux 2.6 dbt dbt OK? This didn't occur before the millenium, and may be similar to dbt your situation. I HOPE you know a fix. If now,

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-05 Thread Kevin A. Foss
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:14:24PM -0500, David Teague wrote: Hi My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. [...] gandalf# /sbin/hwclock -w mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. You didn't mention the version of

Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-04 Thread David Teague
Hi My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. When I try to set the hardware clock, I get the error message indicated in the subject line. The entire exchange that brought this to mind is: gandalf# /usr/sbin/netdate