From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 12: 3:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DA537BAAC for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA20541; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:03:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:03:07 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Zachary Drew Cc: Jamie Hermans , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: adjkerntz & crontab question. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Zachary Drew wrote: > Thanks but i know what it does, i'm just wondering why its run several > times in the early morning. I think the reasoning behind running it everyday between midnight and 5am is so that it will adjust for daylight savings, no matter where in the world you are - it's a generic workaround. Don't worry about it - it only takes a millisecond (or two) to run... > > Zach > > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jamie Hermans wrote: > > > Hiya... > > > > Rumour is that it affects daylight savings time. I think if your time zone > > does not follow the fall-behind leap-ahead effects, you can remove that > > line. > > > > As an educated guess: ADJust KERNal TimeZone > > > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong... > > > > ... Jamie > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Zachary Drew > > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 2:37 am > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: adjkerntz & crontab question. > > > > > > > > why is "adjkerntz -a" run several times in the early morning from > > /etc/crontab? > > > > # time zone change adjustment for wall cmos clock, > > # does nothing, if you have UTC cmos clock. > > # See adjkerntz(8) for details. > > 1,31 0-5 * * * root adjkerntz -a > > > > i've looked in the mail archives and adjkerntz(8) and nothing > > mentions why it is run several times over a five hour period. > > > > thanks > > > > Zach > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message