FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

Brett Glass brett at lariat.org
Sat Nov 26 22:09:38 GMT 2005


At 09:08 PM 11/25/2005, Joseph Koshy wrote:
 
>> Just created a server using FreeBSD 6.0, and it's quite
>> stable and fast. One glitch, though: Jobs scheduled to
>> run at midnight via /etc/crontab are running at 6 PM
>> (midnight GMT). I've double checked, and the CMOS clock
>> is set to local time and the time zone is specified as
>> Mountain Standard Time. What could be going on? Is this
>> a known problem?
>
>Is there a file /etc/wall_cmos_clock on this system?

There's a zero length file by that name. Ownership
and permissions are root:wheel, a=r.

--Brett



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