calcru negative time error

[Jimi Thompson]

At 11:58 PM -0500 6/3/03, Shane Kinney wrote:
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>On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jimi Thompson wrote:
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>>http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIV
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>>  That web page said to enter this command (which I do not have a good
>>  understanding of but did anyway)
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>  > # sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1
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>>  which I did, but apparently my 5.0 doesn't like that because it
>>  promptly spit back:
>>
>>  sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.timecounter.method'
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>I looked at that FAQ page, and right underneath where it lists that
>command it says the following:
>
>Note: The -w option of sysctl(8) is deprecated and silently ignored in
>FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE and all newer versions. You can safely ommit it when
>setting options with sysctl as shown above.
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>I'd give it a try with out the '-w' flag.  Although I don't know if it'll fix
>your issues.  Just maybe a step in the right direction.


It still generates the exact same error message


>  > Thanks,
>>  Ms. Jimi Thompson, CISSP, Rev.
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>~Shane Kinney
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Thanks,

Ms. Jimi Thompson, CISSP, Rev.

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