Bug 50974 - Missing hwclock flags in rc.sysinit
Summary: Missing hwclock flags in rc.sysinit
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: roswell
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-05 20:56 UTC by jbotha
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2001-08-06 22:41:12 UTC
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Description jbotha 2001-08-05 20:56:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
Some of us still use machines with brain dead BIOSes that require hwclock
to get the --badyear flag.  There is currently no way to provide this flag
during boot time other than to edit rc.sysinit.

It would be really nice if CLOCKFLAGS could be set in /etc/sysconfig/clock.

The following simple patch achieves this:

--- rc.sysinit  Tue Jul 24 16:08:01 2001
+++ rc.sysinit.2b       Sun Aug  5 15:43:08 2001
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 fi
 
 CLOCKDEF=""
-CLOCKFLAGS="--hctosys"
+CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS --hctosys"
 
 case "$UTC" in
    yes|true)

It would also be nice if the installation and setup tools could include an
option to ask if --badyear should be included in /etc/sysconfig/clock.  ;)
Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-08-06 22:41:06 UTC 
We (Red Hat) should try to fix this for the next release.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-07 04:23:08 UTC 
Patch added to the initscripts in 6.12-1. Adding it to the config tools I doubt
will happen at this point.
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