In message <20080630151740.GQ17364_at_cicely7.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes: >But since ntpd only tunes the softclock and never sets the RTC it >allows the RTC to run completely unsyncronized. >Is there a way to regulary trigger a write to the RTC without >disturbing ntpd, so that the offset never gets large? Ideally the adjkerntz we run in cron every night should do that. The easiest way would be to add a sysctl that when written does it, thatway systems without adjkerntz could do it with a cronjob that just sysctl's that variable directly. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Mon Jun 30 2008 - 14:21:15 UTC
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