[launchd-dev] Is there anything that can prevent launchd from working

[Scott Haneda]

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.
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