From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 15:48:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19089 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:48:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA19068 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:48:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA06976; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:48:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:48:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Scott Morris cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing time hangs system In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970213083322.29d70018@uhuru.tsi.gte.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Scott Morris wrote: > > I'm running 2-1.5R and noticed that the date and time were wrong > last night. When I set the date & time backwards to correct, the system > responded and issued the appropiate messages and hung. The only way to get > it back was to reboot the machine. > Has anyone else encountered this? Was it due to setting backwards? > I'm planning to add time sync software and need to know if this is a OS > problem or hardware related. Cron probably self-destructed -- it gets really mad when time goes backwards. Try to avoid changing the date & time while in multi-user mode, use DOS, BIOS Setup, single-user mode, or 'ntpdate' to sync. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major