[arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

[Kwpolska]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:36:45AM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> 
> It would appear that on Jul 12, Tom Gundersen did say:
> 
It would appear that your pre-quotation messages are annoying.
[snip]
> Actually  I wouldn't notice the adjustment at all except that certain
> system messages put things on the tty1 screen. So since I'm logging on to
> the console instead of using some {Display Manager's} gui login screen,
> there is {echoed?} to the screen a short oneline message about the
> adjustment that includes several digits with a "." in the middle that I'm
> assuming is a reference to how big the change was. At that point I don't
> have gpm working so lets pretend it says "NTP: adjust RTC [0000012.0000001]"
> n which case if I were starting to login as jtwdyp I might see:
> 
> myhost login: jtwd
> 	NTP: adjust RTC [0000012.0000001]yp
> Password: 
> 
> Or some such thing. So unless the ntpd called from rc.local is NOT supposed
> to leave a message on tty1, I don't think that's a bug. 

Not a bug. Just add `2>&1 /dev/null' at the end of your line.
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