From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 847 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Jul 2003 21:43:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 32219 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2003 21:43:28 -0000 From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:40:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030707211112.M17813@dympna.com> In-Reply-To: <20030707211112.M17813@dympna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307071440.50873.george@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 tagged_above=-100000.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch to /etc/init.d/ntpd to set tickadj if needed X-Archives-Salt: 3c2669a5-227c-475d-b116-0aee47227ae8 X-Archives-Hash: 63b994e4bd06938bdb23e22293f0d140 Hi Rob. Thanks a lot for your contribution! However please use http://bugs.gentoo.org for these kinds of submissions. This will ensure that your patch will get assigned to the appropriate developer and will be taken care of in a due course. George On Monday 07 July 2003 14:15, Rob Snow wrote: > Please excuse me if this is the wrong list to send this to, this is my > first submission to Gentoo since I recently installed. > > This patch adds a feature to set and save a tick value for machines that do > not keep good time with the default tick value. This does not adjust the > value itself, it simply keeps the current value between start/stop and > reboots. I believe this might be quite useful for those with bad tick > values due to overclocking or just plain broken hardware. It doesn't have > any adverse effect on those who don't need the change. > > -Rob -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list