On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Robert Locke wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:39 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 29.07.2005 schrieb Berna Massingill um 21:53:
>
>>>> >> hwclock --show | cat
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Does that help?
>>
>> It did for me (newly-installed FC4 system on Dell Dimension,
>> hwclock from util-linux-2.12p-9.5).
>>
>> I notice also that:
>>
>> (*) hwclock produces output if run from one of the virtual text
>> consoles, but not if run from an xterm (unless piped to another
>> command, as you describe above).
>>
>> (*) /sbin/hwclock does not produce output, but if I copy /sbin/hwclock
>> to, say, /root/hwclock, /root/hwclock produces output.
>>
>> (*) If run as /sbin/hwclock, strace output indicates that the program
>> makes a call to ioctl, which works in a text console but not in an
>> xterm. If run as /root/hwclock, it doesn't make that call, and all
>> is well.
>
> Interesting. Maybe one of the SELinux gurus is willing to jump in an
> enlighten us mortals.
>
Just an FYI, but the selinux-policy-targeted package from
updates-testing fixed this hwclock problem for me....
* Thu Jul 28 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.25.3-9
- Bump for FC4
* Thu Jul 28 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.25.3-8
- Fixes for cups, hwclock, system_passwd, samba_net
Now "hwclock --show | cat" works, but "hwclock --show" does not (in a
gterm and after "su").
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs