Re: changing the date

1999-03-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OG Locate is nice, and it would have found hwclock indeed, but OG the database should be up-to-date. Many home users don't run it. OG I didn't know if James did, and thus did not mention it. AFAIR, updatedb is run once on install... And updatedb is installed in cron by default on RH. So most

Re: changing the date

1999-03-19 Thread James Olin Oden
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: PLP find $MANPATH -name "clock*" -print Uh-oh... locate is perfectly good command, why not to use it? Like in "locate clock.8", which would explain everything. --' Again, a good strategy, except on RH 5.0-5.2 there is no clock.8 file. There is a

Re: changing the date

1999-03-19 Thread Peter L. Peres
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, James Olin Oden wrote: "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: PLP find $MANPATH -name "clock*" -print Uh-oh... locate is perfectly good command, why not to use it? Like in "locate clock.8", which would explain everything. --' Again, a good strategy, except on RH

Re: changing the date

1999-03-18 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OG man 8 clock man 8 hwclock Also, man 8 setclock At least on my RH. It was "clock" somewhere in time, but it moved to be hwclock - I think to emphasize that it sets hardware clock, not just some volatile "system time" :) OG Well, the man page for clock(8) may be missing on your system, but OG

Re: changing the date

1999-03-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
James Olin Oden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, the man page for clock(8) may be missing on your system, but who's to blame if that is the case? I suppose Red Hat would be to blame as it is one of their distributions (RH 5.0 and 5.2). I will search the net for this man page. Or maybe

Re: changing the date

1999-03-18 Thread James Olin Oden
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: OG man 8 clock man 8 hwclock Also, man 8 setclock At least on my RH. It was "clock" somewhere in time, but it moved to be hwclock - I think to emphasize that it sets hardware clock, not just some volatile "system time" :) That did it. I am using