Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: hardware clock often doesn't sync to system on shutdown

[Sebastian Redl]

Thanasis wrote:
> I attach the /etc/init.d/clock which shows a local "readonly" variable
> that controls a "--noadjfile" option.
> What does the following test do?
>
> if ! touch /etc/adjtime 2>/dev/null ; then
>                readonly="yes"
> elif [[ ! -s /etc/adjtime ]] ; then
>                echo "0.0 0 0.0" > /etc/adjtime
> fi
First it tests if a touch of /etc/adjtime succeeds. If not, the file is 
not writeable, and it sets the readonly variable.

Then it tests if /etc/adjtime exists (it does, since the touch 
succeeded) and has non-zero size. If not, it writes a zero adjust into 
the file.

Sebastian