--On Friday, September 16, 2005 2:50 PM -0400 Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16 Sep 2005 at 11:42, Karl Cunningham wrote: > >> Some time ago this machine developed an occasional problem when started >> where its hardware clock would come up with the wrong time. Rather than >> replace the machine for such a trivial problem we put a line of code into >> the initialization scripts that sets the system clock from our time >> server. >> >> This is what I think is happening: The OS's system clock is set to the >> bad hardware value at boot, then the Bacula director starts and sets up >> jobs that are scheduled to run in the next hour, then the startup script >> corrects the system time to be right. As time advances the director will >> start jobs at what it thought was the right time, but no longer is. > > A possible solution: > > Make the Bacula script start after the time setting. How you do this > varies from system to system. > > Under FreeBSD, I'd rename bacula.sh to z-bacula.sh (actually, that's > its name anyway, so that Bacula starts up after MySQL/PostgreSQL). > I'd also put the time correction to be early in the process, and you > might also want to plug it directly into the Bacula start up script. > > Or better still, create a third script that first invokes the time > correction script, then the Bacula startup script. Hi Dan -- Thanks for the suggestions. I had changed the startup dependencies so that the system waits for the time-setting script to finish before starting Bacula. But I like your last suggestion (one script to do both) better. Changing it now. Thanks. Best Regards, Karl ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
