On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > As far as I know new kernels does not write the correct time to the bios clock > every 11 min even if the system has a good time reference (ntp or such). This > is contrary to what older kernels used to do. I have never heard of a kernel voluntarily updating the hardware clock, or anyything at a weird 11 minute interval. I do however set on some wild-clocked old mobos a cron job to write the HWclock once an hour or once a day. however if you have NTP synched and a drift file updated by xntpd, then you don't even need to do that. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently." -- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
