On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:54:23PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. Ok - a sysctl which, when written calls resettodr(). Plus adding this call to adjkerntz independend of wall_cmos_clock existence. I wonder if people might forget about this when they remove adjkerntz from a small system. -- B.Walter <bernd_at_bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.Received on Mon Jun 30 2008 - 14:59:28 UTC
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