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It would appear that on,March 22, 2010 07:32AM Mermouy did say:
Maybe with rcconf which help in manaing boot & shutdown levels and services?
Thanks for the suggestion Mermouy,
I wasn't even aware of the existence of that tool before. But as far as I can see it's just a TUI frontend for update-rc.d... Handy though it might be for quickly turning services on and off, I don't believe that I can accomplish stopping Elive from syncing the hardware clock by disabling a service. I've already accomplished getting Elive to treat the time it finds there at boot time as my local EST/EDT time rather than UTC. And without running NTP that "almost" does what I want because the system clock is set to the hardware clock on boot, and if NTP doesn't correct the time, then when I eventually shut down the only difference between the time in the hardware clock and the time that gets written to, it is the theoretically small amount of drift caused by two different clocks gradually getting out of sync until at shutdown, Elive decides it's more accurate than the hardware clock and forces it's time to be "synced" to it's computed time during the shutdown script. But actually I'd like to run NTP to keep Elive's system clock more accurate, but for assorted personal reasons I do not want this corrected time to be written back into the hardware clock. I'd like Elive to treat it as a read-only device. If I were better at programming I might be able to find the actual calls that "sync" the hardware clock within the assorted rc scripts, and edit that function out of it. But I do not believe there is a separate daemon process (aka service) that's responsible for correcting the hardware clock to match the system time. So I don't see how update-rc.d or it's front end, rcconf can do this for me.
But like I said,
"Thanks!" for the suggestion. And at least I learned of a potentially useful tool for quickly disabling and/or reenableing various daemon services, without having to study my update-rc.d notes every time...
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