Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:05:57 +0100 (CET) From: Lenz Grimmer Message-ID: Subject: Re: [SLE] curious On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Landy Roman wrote:

every time i run the script below my screen goes black for 1 second... any reason for that

netdate -v 137.226.144.3 137.226.112.21 | /sbin/hwclock -wu

Huh? Why do you _pipe_ the output of netdate into hwclock? This looks suspicius to me. You should replace the "|" with "&&" - this looks more logical to me. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany The ratchet wheel of politics is self-destructive greed.