Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 17:27:29 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Setting the CMOS clock... How? Message-ID: <5589.874974449@monkeys.com>
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Greetings again folks. I hope that I haven't used up my quota of questions yet. This time I _do_ have one that I would have thought would have been an FAQ... for the questions list anyway... so I did a search in the online archives of the questions list, but I still came up empty. On Linux, there is a program called /sbin/clock which can be used to set the standard x86 system ``CMOS time-of-day clock'' from the kernel's current time-of-day value or vise versa. Try as I might, I can't seem to find the thing that (under FreeBSD) performs the same function. Is there such a thing? If so, where do I find it? P.S. In all truth, I'm not even 100% sure what the Linux manpage for /sbin/clock is referring to when it says ``CMOS clock''. Is that what the FreeBSD 2.2.2 clocks(7) manpage calls the ``mc14618a clock''? Or is it the thing that the FreeBSD manpage calls the ``i8254 clock''? (Sorry. I'm just not enough of a hardware geek to know.) -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) demo: http://monkeys.com/cgi-bin/wpoison
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