[systemd-devel] Disabling RTC updates on shutdown

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Scobie
I have a machine with Fedora 16 installed, which is my first exposure to systemd. I have a requirement to disable the OS updating the CMOS RTC on shutdown. This is a not uncommon requirement if /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm is used, as outlined here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup#Di

Re: [systemd-devel] Disabling RTC updates on shutdown

2012-03-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 16.03.12 18:03, Richard Scobie (r.sco...@clear.net.nz) wrote: > I have a machine with Fedora 16 installed, which is my first > exposure to systemd. > > I have a requirement to disable the OS updating the CMOS RTC on > shutdown. This is a not uncommon requirement if > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/w

Re: [systemd-devel] Disabling RTC updates on shutdown

2012-03-16 Thread Richard Scobie
Hi Lennart, Lennart Poettering wrote: systemd does not update the RTC on shutdown. I apologise, the system is only accessable via ssh and after years of using previous Redhat and Fedora versions that did this, I thought F16 did as well. We update the RTC in the timedated mechanism when s

Re: [systemd-devel] Disabling RTC updates on shutdown

2012-03-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 17.03.12 08:11, Richard Scobie (r.sco...@clear.net.nz) wrote: Heya, > >We update the RTC in the timedated mechanism when somebody changes the > >system time, but we do not delay updating the RTC to shutdown. > > This may explain the intermittent nature of the problem I am seeing. > The s