From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 16:03:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDEA37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D145543F85 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimit@myrealbox.com) Received: from [10.10.10.2] jimit@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [4.60.255.212] $ on Novell NetWare; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 16:03:04 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jimit@pop3.myrealbox.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030603235550.L98296-100000@sigma.freebsdhackers.net> References: <20030603235550.L98296-100000@sigma.freebsdhackers.net> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:02:59 -0500 To: Shane Kinney From: Jimi Thompson Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: calcru negative time error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:03:20 -0000 At 11:58 PM -0500 6/3/03, Shane Kinney wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jimi Thompson wrote: > >> >>http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIV > >> That web page said to enter this command (which I do not have a good >> understanding of but did anyway) > > > > # sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1 >> >> which I did, but apparently my 5.0 doesn't like that because it >> promptly spit back: >> >> sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.timecounter.method' > >I looked at that FAQ page, and right underneath where it lists that >command it says the following: > >Note: The -w option of sysctl(8) is deprecated and silently ignored in >FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE and all newer versions. You can safely ommit it when >setting options with sysctl as shown above. > >I'd give it a try with out the '-w' flag. Although I don't know if it'll fix >your issues. Just maybe a step in the right direction. It still generates the exact same error message > > Thanks, >> Ms. Jimi Thompson, CISSP, Rev. > >~Shane Kinney > >Web: http://www.freebsdhackers.net >IRC: irc.freebsdhackers.net #freebsd >PGP: http://www.freebsdhackers.net/pgp >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) >Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > >iD8DBQE+3XyIgsso3QO013ERAqQ5AKCOOAzKidPBCGCJ2W/Jb23nXdCRwACeIzOO >T7nUctlbH/J02Ewo7JO/fX0= >=bkPR >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Thanks, Ms. Jimi Thompson, CISSP, Rev. "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." --Plato