On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:39 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 29.07.2005 schrieb Berna Massingill um 21:53: > > > >> > > hwclock --show | cat > > >> > > > > >> > > Does that help? > > > > It did for me (newly-installed FC4 system on Dell Dimension, > > hwclock from util-linux-2.12p-9.5). > > > > I notice also that: > > > > (*) hwclock produces output if run from one of the virtual text > > consoles, but not if run from an xterm (unless piped to another > > command, as you describe above). > > > > (*) /sbin/hwclock does not produce output, but if I copy /sbin/hwclock > > to, say, /root/hwclock, /root/hwclock produces output. > > > > (*) If run as /sbin/hwclock, strace output indicates that the program > > makes a call to ioctl, which works in a text console but not in an > > xterm. If run as /root/hwclock, it doesn't make that call, and all > > is well. > > Interesting. Maybe one of the SELinux gurus is willing to jump in an > enlighten us mortals. > Just an FYI, but the selinux-policy-targeted package from updates-testing fixed this hwclock problem for me.... * Thu Jul 28 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.25.3-9 - Bump for FC4 * Thu Jul 28 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.25.3-8 - Fixes for cups, hwclock, system_passwd, samba_net --Rob
