On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Jude, > That is most interesting. It certainly caused a problem for me > here on this 8.1 distro, and until I got rid of it I was obliged > to shutdown without unmounting my partitions first due to the > hwclock program hanging. You could have got around this by compiling y our kernel with sysrq support, (see /path/to/linux-sources/Documentation/sysrq.txt). Nice stuff, if you know nobody else will be accessing your consol, as you don't even need to be logged in to use it. HTH -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at gw0ucu.plus.com Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
