freebsd stable - Apr 2006 - How to change hardware clock

How to change hardware clock? 

I can't update clock with rdate, ntpdate.

 

 

FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE

 

Thanks.

On Sat, April 15, 2006 4:57 pm, Mare Negrocan wrote:
> How to change hardware clock?
>
> I can't update clock with rdate, ntpdate.
(from date(1) manual page)

     The command:

           date 8506131627

     sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.

           date "+%Y%m%d%H%M.%S"

     The command:

           date 1432

     sets the time to 2:32 PM, without modifying the date.

-- 
Giorgos Kapetanakis

On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:27, Mare Negrocan wrote:
> How to change hardware clock?
>
> I can't update clock with rdate, ntpdate.
Care to provide any error messages?
Or even what you tried?

Is ntpd running?

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On Monday 17 April 2006 02:25, Mare Negrocan wrote:
> I repeat, I have trouble with hardware clock!
>
> Ntpd, ntpdate, rdate don't update my hardware clock.
>
> No error messages.
No idea.
Maybe your hardware is broken?
You haven't supplied any information about your hardware.

What do you mean exactly? When you reboot the BIOS time is unchanged? Does the 
clock change in FreeBSD when you use those?

Also, don't drop the CC.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:doconnor@gsoft.com.au]
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 11:36 PM
> To: Mare Negrocan
> Subject: Re: How to change hardware clock
>
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 00:33, Mare Negrocan wrote:
> > Ntpd is running.
>
> If ntpd is running then ntpdate won't be able to run at the same time.
Stop
> ntpd, run ntpdate, then restart ntpd.
>
> Also, please don't drop CC in future.
>
> PS your aparent lazyness in only answering one of my questions does not
> bode
>
> well for finding out answers on a mailing list.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:doconnor@gsoft.com.au]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 5:01 PM
> > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> > Cc: Mare Negrocan
> > Subject: Re: How to change hardware clock
> >
> > On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:27, Mare Negrocan wrote:
> > > How to change hardware clock?
> > >
> > > I can't update clock with rdate, ntpdate.
> >
> > Care to provide any error messages?
> > Or even what you tried?
> >
> > Is ntpd running?
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for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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2006/4/15, Mare Negrocan <mare@negrocan.net>:
> I can't update clock with rdate, ntpdate.
if you have securelevel => 2 then you will be unable to change your
date > 1 second.

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2006/4/18, Mare Negrocan <mare@negrocan.net>:
> Yes, I have kern_securelevel="2"
> Should I change it?
You should read `man securelevel'.

If it's only a clock problem, change it to 0, update your clock,
change again to your favorite securelevel, but you MUST know what are
you doing changing it.

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Italian FreeBSD User Group
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