From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com ([204.127.198.38]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182Ljb-0000Yd-00 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:15:27 -0400 Received: from h0020780ec927.ne.client2.attbi.com ([24.60.84.29]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021018011453.JGXR18217.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@h0020780ec927.ne.client2.attbi.com> for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:14:53 +0000 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:10:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Gueths X-X-Sender: igueths@igueths To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: more on hardware clock In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: You could always remove this by editing some of the sutdown scripts that are run from init.d/rc.d I believe on slackware. I had to do this when Woody played with it (upgrade process). I have no idea why it decided to play wit shutdown, but in any case I had to edit it back to a working state. Microsoft dialogue This company has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown. If this problem persists, delete Winblows and install Linux. Close button On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Hi Greg, > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > > Hmm, and it hung your system when running clock, right? > > Yes. Of course you normally don't run hwclock very often, but the > Slackware shutdown procedure attempts to write the system time to > the hardware clock, and so your shutdown is stopped in its > tracks. > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (90% of Full) > So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >