Bug 75069
| Summary: | Some arcane errors in the description of /etc/sysconfig/clock | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Tonhofer <bughunt> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-init-shutdown-sysconfig.html | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-10-28 18:44:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I will address this this week. Thank you so much for catching that. Johnray I have corrected the HTML and posted an errata at the following URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/errata/RHL-8.0-Manual/ I am re-assigning this bug to the initscripts package so that the /usr/share/docs/ can be updated. Thanks again for your feedback! Johnray Fixed in CVS, will be in 6.96-1 or later. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: we read about /etc/sysconfig/clock: ----------------------------------------------- Currently, the correct values are: UTC=<value>, where <value> is one of the following boolean values: true - Indicates that the clock is set to Universal Time. Any other value indicates that it is set to local time. ARC=<value>, where <value> is the following: true - Indicates the ARC console's 42-year time offset is in effect. Any other value indicates that the normal UNIX epoch is assumed (for Alpha-based systems only). ZONE=<filename> - Indicates the timezone file under /usr/share/zoneinfo that /etc/localtime is a copy of, such as: ----------------------------------------------- But a look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt of RH 7.3 teaches us that the text should be like this: ----------------------------------------------- Currently, the correct values are: UTC=<value>, where <value> is one of the following boolean values: true,yes - Indicates that the **hardware clock** is set to Universal Time. no,false - Indicates that the **hardware clock** is set to Local Time NOT setting this will cause hwclock to reuse whatever was used the last time 'round, and thus is a Bad Idea. ARC=<value>, where <value> is the following: true - Indicates the ARC console's 42-year time offset is in effect. Any other value indicates that the normal UNIX epoch is assumed (for Alpha-based systems only). SRM=<value>, where <value> is the following: true - Indicates that the SRM 1900 epoch is in effect (Alphas SRM console only) ZONE=<filename> - Indicates the timezone file under /usr/share/zoneinfo that /etc/localtime is a copy of, such as: ----------------------------------------------- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1- boot-init-shutdown-sysconfig.html 2. Read Additional info: