problems setting the time

[Ian Hoyle]

I'm having a few problems resetting the date/time on my 240GTX (Irix 3.3.1).

We are running timed to keep our machines (4D/20 & an aging 4D/50) in sync, 
but because the clock had drifted I wanted to change the time. I tried using 
"date" and failed. I then used sysadm directly but again couldn't do it as
is outlined below (my machine is called morgana).

root @ morgana-> date
Fri Dec  7 16:11:10 EST 1990

root @ morgana-> timedc
timedc> msite
master timedaemon runs on morgana
timedc> quit

and now the tail end of using sysadm to set the time .....

Current date and time:  Fri. 12/07/90 16:11
Change the date and time? [y, n, ?, q] y
Month   default 12      (1-12):
Day     default 07      (1-31):
Year    default 90      (70-99):
Hour    default 16      (0-23):
Minute  default 11      (0-59): 02
Date and time will be set to:  12/07/90 16:02.  OK? [y, n, q] y
Fri Dec  7 16:02:00 EST 1990
The date and time are now changed.
The cron has been restarted to pick up the new time and/or time zone.

Press the RETURN key to see the syssetup menu [?, ^, q]: q
root @ morgana->
root @ morgana-> date
Fri Dec  7 16:12:06 EST 1990

AAAAAaaaaaaaargh, the date/time hasn't budged. :-(

It looks like timed is preventing me resetting the clock. I would have thought
that if I'm on the machine running as a master this would have been an allowed
operation ??

		ian


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