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From: SONDRICK@HASARA11.BITNET (Rick Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: timeclock equals hole in head
Message-ID: <91177.095258SONDRICK@HASARA11.BITNET>
Date: 26 Jun 91 09:46:52 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.110046.31677@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam
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>The clocks on our PI's do an abysmal job of keeping the time of day.
>I'm trying to set the .timetrim parameter to improve things, but
>find that when timed is running, the system will not respond to any
>attempts to set the clock directly using either date or sysadm.
>If I turn off timed, I can use date in the usual way.  But when I
>turn timed back on, the clock reverts to the original (incorrect)
>time!!  How can I tell timed not to do this?
 
I had exactly the same problem, cost me HOURS! Grmblll!!
My solution was to prevent timed from running at all, by
installing the file /etc/config/timed.options containing bogus
options (in fact, a note telling that it breaks timed :).
 
Rick.