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### Appendix D. Boot and sysconfig scripts version-20150222

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# D.7. /etc/rc.d/init.d/setclock

    #!/bin/sh
    ########################################################################
    # Begin setclock
    #
    # Description : Setting Linux Clock
    #
    # Authors     : Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
    #               DJ Lucas - dj@linuxfromscratch.org
    # Update      : Bruce Dubbs - bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org
    #
    # Version     : LFS 7.0
    #
    ########################################################################

    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:
    # Required-Start:
    # Should-Start:        modules
    # Required-Stop:
    # Should-Stop:         $syslog
    # Default-Start:       S
    # Default-Stop:
    # Short-Description:   Stores and restores time from the hardware clock
    # Description:         On boot, system time is obtained from hwclock.  The
    #                      hardware clock can also be set on shutdown.
    # X-LFS-Provided-By:   LFS BLFS
    ### END INIT INFO

    . /lib/lsb/init-functions

    [ -r /etc/sysconfig/clock ] && . /etc/sysconfig/clock

    case "${UTC}" in
       yes|true|1)
          CLOCKPARAMS="${CLOCKPARAMS} --utc"
          ;;

       no|false|0)
          CLOCKPARAMS="${CLOCKPARAMS} --localtime"
          ;;

    esac

    case ${1} in
       start)
          hwclock --hctosys ${CLOCKPARAMS} >/dev/null
          ;;

       stop)
          log_info_msg "Setting hardware clock..."
          hwclock --systohc ${CLOCKPARAMS} >/dev/null
          evaluate_retval
          ;;

       *)
          echo "Usage: ${0} {start|stop}"
          exit 1
          ;;

    esac

    exit 0

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