Bug#484929: understanding rtc_min in /etc/nvram-wakeup.conf

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Petter wrote:

> The resulting nvram-wakeup.conf file generated by guess-helper do not
> work.  I get a syntax error message regarding line 13, which contain
> "rtc_min = 0x40 # but differs somewhere else".  Not quite sure how to
> recover from that one.

My understanding from nvram-wakeup.conf(5) is that rtc_min is supposed
to be identical to addr_min, except that it indicates it's BCD-encoded
instead of straight byte-encoded.

That is, if you set the minutes to 14, byte 0x40 will probably contain
0x14 instead of 0x0e.

i'm seeing this same behavior in 0.97-15, unfortunately.  weird that
rtc_min is considered a syntax error, but rtc_day is accepted and parsed
fine.

if you replace rtc_min with addr_min, the configuration file should work
(though nvram-wakeup will misinterpret the value of the byte).

	--dkg

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