Quoting Guentcho Skordev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I have a similar but yet another problem. The battery of the clock is old,
> and the clock is wrong if the power was off.
Can you not fit a new battery? Usually you can just plug the new one
into the mobo without removing the old one. (It's usuall
> (Maybe allowing someone to type in a date, if it is possible at all, is
> somehow insecure, but I am the only user at the console).
>
try this in your ntpdate startup script:
if ! ntpdate ; then
while :; do
read -p "ntpdate failed. please enter date by hand: " date
date -s $date && br
Hello,
I have a similar but yet another problem. The battery of the clock is old,
and the clock is wrong if the power was off. It isn't a constant drift so
"hwclock --adjust" wouldn't help. Because I am connected to a network, I
have used netdate to get the correct time from the net.
But I still
Hello Owen,
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Owen G. Emry wrote:
> My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the
> year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make)
> complain, so is there an easy workaround?
> I assume I can just set the real-time clock to,
"Owen G. Emry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the
> year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make)
> complain, so is there an easy workaround?
>
> I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 199
Sorry, already deleted the original posting:
> "Owen G. Emry" wrote:
> >
> > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the
> > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make)
> > complain, so is there an easy workaround?
> >
> > I assume I can ju
"Owen G. Emry" wrote:
>
> My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the
> year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make)
> complain, so is there an easy workaround?
>
> I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 1990, and have the
> int
My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the
year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make)
complain, so is there an easy workaround?
I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 1990, and have the
internal clock set itself to the RTC
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