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:
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.