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| author | J William Piggott | 2015-02-08 02:44:02 +0100 |
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| committer | J William Piggott | 2015-02-08 02:44:02 +0100 |
| commit | 37f8d848afa198b8e8afc78d646309818e29e124 (patch) | |
| tree | 27d92f0f6bb92d691b9abae62b77d5ce2b2dbb2a /sys-utils/hwclock.8.in | |
| parent | lscpu: cleanup ppc virtualization detection (diff) | |
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hwclock: Add ntptime reference to man-page
Some distros do not have an adjtimex package;
ntptime can be used as an alternate.
Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/hwclock.8.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/hwclock.8.in | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in index ea1bcff0f..8656af8e2 100644 --- a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in +++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in @@ -834,6 +834,10 @@ During shutdown the following is called: .br .B \%hwclock\ \-\-systohc .PP +.in +4 +.BR * " Systems without " adjtimex " may use " ntptime . +.in +.PP Whether maintaining precision time with .BR \%ntpd (1) or not, it makes sense to configure the system to keep reasonably good @@ -861,7 +865,10 @@ should be done first. The System Clock drift is corrected with the .BR \%adjtimex "(8) command's " \-\-tick " and " \%\-\-frequency options. These two work together, tick is the course adjustment and -frequency is the fine adjustment. +frequency is the fine adjustment. (For system that do not have an +.BR \%adjtimex " package," +.BI \%ntptime\ \-f\ <ppm> +may be use instead.) .PP Some Linux distributions attempt to automatically calculate the System Clock drift with |