Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:54:23 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTC problem Message-ID: <7576.1214841263@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:17:44 %2B0200." <20080630151740.GQ17364@cicely7.cicely.de>
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In message <20080630151740.GQ17364@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@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.
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