On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Damien Sorresso wrote:
Ok, understood. The trouble is, ntpdate is failing then, and I have no way to get the date set to 1969. Any attempts to do so via GUI, drop it back to current date. I can shove it to some other date, but ntpdate does not error when run.
How can I mimic from an interactive shell exactly what launchd is doing, so I know I am on the same page? Any idea how to get the system clock into 1969? I really do not want to pull a pram battery in this laptop :)
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. If you want to see why ntpdate is returning an exit code of 1, you should read their documentation or their source. Also, logging the output of the invocation of ntpdate would probably be useful for you.
Its getting a little OT, so I really appreciate this. Either a crash or a panic cause the machine to freeze, I have to manually reboot. When I do, there is a dialogue on screen telling me there is a date time issue. I wish I could find a screen shot but I do not remember the exact terminology. When that type of messages comes up, ntpdate returns exit 1. I need a test case, in order to reproduce it on another machine. The previous suggestions to inspire panic to happen, do not mess with the date and time on my macbook, and I can not really fiddle on a live server. As to reading the docs and source, I looked at the man page, where is the source for the BSD version, I can not find it, not that I would be very good at reading it anyway. Actually, I believe a PMU reset inspires that message, so maybe I can try that as well. Thanks all. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *