Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:48:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Scott Morris <smorris@tsi.gte.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing time hangs system Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970213154630.6915G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970213083322.29d70018@uhuru.tsi.gte.com>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Scott Morris wrote: > > I'm running 2-1.5R and noticed that the date and time were wrong > last night. When I set the date & time backwards to correct, the system > responded and issued the appropiate messages and hung. The only way to get > it back was to reboot the machine. > Has anyone else encountered this? Was it due to setting backwards? > I'm planning to add time sync software and need to know if this is a OS > problem or hardware related. Cron probably self-destructed -- it gets really mad when time goes backwards. Try to avoid changing the date & time while in multi-user mode, use DOS, BIOS Setup, single-user mode, or 'ntpdate' to sync. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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