I used to be able to run ntpd -s in 5.8

Now I can't. Apparently sometimes security causes incompatibilities.

I ran sendbug with my complaint.

-Luke

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am running on an ASUS laptop, which OpenBSD may have disabled APM
> support
> > to remain compatible. Anyway, I can't run ZZZ even as root (unless there
> is
> > a setting that demands to be flipped somewhere).
>
> So here's the *real* problem, but I see no bug report for it, not even
> a dmesg from you to dm...@openbsd.org.  Plonk.
>
>
> > It takes a few seconds to
> > save the state and return using the virtualbox utility and it is as if
> > nothing happened to stop it. What happens on another machine in which the
> > battery goes out on the motherboard that powers the clock. if you
> hibernate
> > while you are running a preferable uninterruptible process, you are
> screwed
> > if your work demands an accurate clock.
>
> Lyndon** is correct: if you want the clock in your virtualbox to jump,
> virtualbox is the one that should jump it.  Changing ntpd to some how
> magically detect that the VM was paused and resumed is a workaround on
> a kludge.
>
> The output of "fortune -m tailor" seems relevant: stop walking stooped
> over with your elbows bent and get a correctly fitting suit.
>
>
> Philip Guenther
>
> ** Hi Lyndon!  Long time since friends-of-imap dinners...

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