more on hardware clock

[Igor Gueths]

You could always remove this by editing some of the sutdown scripts that
are run from init.d/rc.d I believe on slackware. I had to do this when
Woody played with it (upgrade process). I have no idea why it decided to
play wit shutdown, but in any case I had to edit it back to a working
state.

Microsoft dialogue
This company has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown. If this problem persists, delete Winblows and install Linux. Close button

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

>
> Hi Greg,
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> >
> > Hmm, and it hung your system when running clock, right?
>
> Yes. Of course you normally don't run hwclock very often, but the
> Slackware shutdown procedure attempts to write the system time to
> the hardware clock, and so your shutdown is stopped in its
> tracks.
>
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