On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:24:39PM +1100, Jill Rowling wrote: > Depends on the hardware. I assume you mean a PC; in that case, usually.
Yes, it's a PC. PII-350, about three years old. > Depends on what the manufacturer thought of. Unforunately :-( > 1) Yes except at boot time. However I think there is a re-sync after a while > on some hardware, especially if you are running a time server. That would be The only cron job that touches the h/w clock is mine (run as root because only root can set the h/w clock) - it sets the h/w clock from the system clock after ntpdate has done its thing. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
