On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Pierre Chapuis<catwell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I was wondering if there's a means to specify, in rc.conf or somewhere else, that you never want to set your hardware clock. > > That's because, on Xen-based VPS, the hardware clock is handled on the hypervisor level, and /etc/cron.hourly/adjtime gives warnings such as: > > Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. > Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. > > An easy workaround is to delete this file but it will come back after each initscripts update. > > Does anybody know a solution to prevent that? Look at the newest initscripts package, I just fixed this. Setting the clock to anything except "localtime" or "UTC" will omit the hwclock calls now. http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=2008846efe204b79d1c0f281d609a1f4b23431c8 -Dan
