[wellylug] Clock

[Rob Stockley]

Grant McLean wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 21:19 +1300, Steven Mulvay wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all, 
>>Does anyone here know how to stop Linux from syncing the hardware clock
>>to system time on shutdown?
>>    
>>
>
>My Debian distibution has the file:
>
>  /etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh
>
>removing it (or renaming it to k25hwclock.sh) should stop the save.
>
>Cheers
>Grant
>  
>
Runlevel 0 will take care of halting but you'll find a reboot (runlevel 
6) will still sync your clock under Debian. You can safely delete both 
/etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh and /etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh as they are just 
symlinks to the actual script in /etc/init.d.

To replace them at a later stage you should switch to the root account 
and type;

update-rc.d hwclock.sh stop 25 0 6 .

To be even safer you could use;

su -c 'update-rc.d hwclock.sh stop 25 0 6 .'

This will ask for the root password, perform the command then 
automagically set you back as yourself. No chance of messing anything 
else u pby mistake.

HTH,
Rob


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