On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 06:34, Laurent de Segur wrote: > I just experienced my first battery replacement with my iBook 2002 > running Debian. While on the road and before running out juice, I > swapped batteries. Unfortunately, I discovered that there is no backup > battery on the iBook 2001. So the clock got reset (I may have taken 30 > secs to unpack the new one.) > > What's curious is that when I rebooted, I didn't even get a message that the > clock was set earlier than when the system was shut down. Is this an option > that needs to be set and is off by default?
Not that I know of. Either way, this is rather off-topic on this list... > It is not really hard to write an init script that would do just that, > but because of the serious implications there is booting the machine > with a reset clock, it would be nice if this was a feature set by > default system-wide. So you volunteer to do it and submit it for inclusion into our great distribution? I'm looking forward to it! ;) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
