From 37f8d848afa198b8e8afc78d646309818e29e124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: J William Piggott Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 20:44:02 -0500 Subject: 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 --- sys-utils/hwclock.8.in | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'sys-utils/hwclock.8.in') 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\ +may be use instead.) .PP Some Linux distributions attempt to automatically calculate the System Clock drift with -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522