Bug 50974
| Summary: | Missing hwclock flags in rc.sysinit | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | jbotha |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | roswell | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-08-06 22:41:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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We (Red Hat) should try to fix this for the next release. Patch added to the initscripts in 6.12-1. Adding it to the config tools I doubt will happen at this point. |
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. ;)