Bug 52433 - dateconfig fails in shutting down ntpd, also timezone problems
Summary: dateconfig fails in shutting down ntpd, also timezone problems
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: dateconfig
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-23 18:21 UTC by Joshua Jensen
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-09-04 20:57:05 UTC
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Description Joshua Jensen 2001-08-23 18:21:01 UTC
Description of Problem:

when running dateconfig from the command line, it does two things in error:

It gives the message "Shutting down ntpd:         FAILED]
    This is confusing to users who *aren't* using ntpd

It does not have the default timezone, already configured, shown in the
time zone dialog.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dateconfig-0.7.4-1



How Reproducible:

run dateconfig, look at the time zone dialog;
click on apply



Joshua

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-08-23 19:05:46 UTC
The timezone dialog works for me.  What are the contents of your
/etc/sysconfig/clock file?

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-08-24 17:08:04 UTC
This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.

Comment 3 Joshua Jensen 2001-08-24 18:39:11 UTC
The contents are:

ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=false
ARC=false

Of course, these are the contents *after* using dateconfig, seeing no timezone,
and then selecting a timezone.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-09-04 15:22:30 UTC
That's too bad.  I wanted to know the contents of the file before dateconfig was
run.  dateconfig should be able to read you current timezone and auto select it
in the list, so I'm curious as to what was in the file before dateconfig
overwrote it.

Comment 5 Joshua Jensen 2001-09-04 20:57:01 UTC
I just did an RC2 install, and I haven't run dateconfig yet.  I will try it out
this evening, makeing a backup of /etc/sysconfig/clock before using dateconfig.


Comment 6 Joshua Jensen 2001-09-05 03:27:49 UTC
Well, in RC2 /etc/sysconfig/clock says:
ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=false
ARC=false

When I start dateconfig, I can't reproduce the problem.  It looks like everything is 
good in RC2.

Thanks,

Joshua



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