>>>>> David Woolley <david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> writes: >>>>> Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> I wonder, how do I configure ntpd(8) (as of the Debian Wheezy ntp >> package [1]) /not/ to touch the hardware clock? > ntpd does not set the hardware clock. That is done by the Linux > kernel, when the clock is disciplined by anything. ACK, thanks. I've suspected something like this may be happening. > It's a long time since I looked at that code, but there may be a > kernel build time option, and you can always delete the code from the > kernel. For a one-time task, re-building the kernel doesn't seem like a sensible choice. Perhaps there's a sysctl(8), or a /proc (/sys) interface to disable it? Or perhaps "disable kernel" within /etc/ntp.conf will do the thing? > I assume you mean the 32kHz RTC, sometimes called TOY. Yes. -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sfd.am-1.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions