RTC problem

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20080630151740.GQ17364 at cicely7.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:

>But since ntpd only tunes the softclock and never sets the RTC it
>allows the RTC to run completely unsyncronized.
>Is there a way to regulary trigger a write to the RTC without
>disturbing ntpd, so that the offset never gets large?

Ideally the adjkerntz we run in cron every night should do that.

The easiest way would be to add a sysctl that when written does it,
thatway systems without adjkerntz could do it with a cronjob that
just sysctl's that variable directly.

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