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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:49:29 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: /etc/localtime and screensaver?
Message-ID:  <199603280849.JAA23698@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603272335.QAA00465@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 27, 96 04:35:53 pm

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As Nate Williams wrote:

> This is actually expected behavior.  The same things happens to me when
> I run ntptime on my laptop after being away for awhile.  Basically, the
> time has changed enough so that sometimes cron jobs start up because the
> system time is really hosed up.

That's why one should normally kill cron before changing the time, and
restart it then.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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