On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 15/07/2003 17:31, Michael St. Laurent typed ...
> > That works. Of course if one is running NTP in daemon mode I *believe* it
> > automatically keeps the hardware clock synced. Someone please correct me if
> > I'm wrong about that.
>
> Now that rings a bell ... yes, it's nothing to do with NTP per se.
> See man hwclock for more details ("Automatic Hardware Clock
> Synchronization By the Kernel") but essentially, the kernel has a mode
> that copies the current system time (which may have been set by
> ntp[date]) to the hardware clock automatically every 11 mins.
>
> ntpd apparently turns this mode on (guess ntpdate doesn't?). Don't
> know how you'd turn it on manually ... the man page tells you how to see
> if it's /already/ on (which is actually wrong, as it uses a command
> adjtimex which RH9 seems not to have).
$ whichcd adjtimex
You appear to be running Red Hat Linux 9.
I'll search for rpms for that version.
Searching for adjtimex...
CD-2:adjtimex-1.13-6.i386.rpm
SOURCE-CD-1:adjtimex-1.13-6.src.rpm
wq
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