Re: RedHat/AXP

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@AZStarNet.com)
Mon, 1 Jan 1996 23:32:53 -0700


>>>>> On 02 Jan 1996 02:27:28 +0100, tom@smart.ruhr.de (Thomas Neumann) said:

>> I tried the Redhat-beta on my Jensen and faced the following
>> problems:
>>
>> 1. Setting and/or reading the CMOS clock does not work.

Thomas> Same on our "Noname". We run "ntpdate" at boot time (before
Thomas> cron comes up!) to work around this for now...

I don't know about the Jensen, but this works fine both on my Noname
and Cabrio. I do think there is a problem when the year is totally
off (e.g., like on a new system, where the year is like 1966 or such).
But once the year is set correctly, it all works fine, as far as I
know.

--david