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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] cron and timesync
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:26:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66e17ca3544b3b475439dbd93f5999f7@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307171223310.7478-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

>     ...                                 # time set by rtc (1am)
>     aux/timesync -n ntp.ucalgary.ca     # time still 1am
>     ...
>     auth/cron                           # time still 1am

i came across this problem in for another reason, and my assessment
was not that /dev/rtc wasn't being set (after all, everything reads
/dev/time, not /dev/rtc), but that aux/timesync returns immediately
without having synced the time.

it wouldn't be hard to do: it just requires a little synchronisation
between the forked process and its parent.  i'm afraid i didn't get
around to it (story of my life!).



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-17 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17 18:53 andrey mirtchovski
2003-07-17 19:26 ` rog [this message]
2003-07-17 19:47 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-17 20:21   ` Geoff Collyer
2003-07-17 20:57     ` David Presotto

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