more on hardware clock

[Toby Fisher]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi Jude,
> That is most interesting. It certainly caused a problem for me
> here on this 8.1 distro, and until I got rid of it I was obliged
> to shutdown without unmounting my partitions first due to the
> hwclock program hanging.

You could have got around this by compiling y our kernel with sysrq
support, (see /path/to/linux-sources/Documentation/sysrq.txt).  Nice
stuff, if you know nobody else will be accessing your consol, as you don't
even need to be logged in to use it.

HTH

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