As a note of interest here: I don't think this is gentoo-specific problem. I had exactly the same problem with two different versions of Mandrake too.
Amusingly enough I never had the problem with older versions of Mandrake, so something must've changed during the last 18 months or so. (this is on several different machines too, so I don't think hardware problem likely) // Joel On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Christopher Egner wrote: > Alright then, any ideas what to use. I mean, I agree syncing to multiple > servers seems a bit drastic (nice to know I won't be late for work, but > still...). Shoot even syncing to one! I saw the perl script, and I'll > give that a go, but there's gotta be a better way. I mean for the system > to be off twenty minutes after running a day is inexcusable for most > systems. > > If anyone has any other ideas. let me know > > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 09:09, Robert Bragg wrote: > > I think ntp is the wrong tool for the job here. ntp isn't for keeping you > > clock about right, its for when you want yor clock to be extremly acurate. > > You should have a working clock to startwith (i.e. no harware errors or > > miss-configurations) Unless you force it to (-g I think), ntpd will usually > > kill itsself if it detects an error with your clock (i.e. if it goes to far > > out of sync it will give up.) > > > > Just saying, 'coz ntpd seems to be a slightly missused tool. > > > > Rob > > > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:13:39AM -0500, Christopher Egner wrote: > > > Alright, perhaps I'm a bit lost on this. My clock always runs off about > > > 20 to 30 minutes after a day or so. Only in linux though. I figured I'd > > > start using ntpd. However, I can't seem to figure out how to configure a > > > timezone for it. Any help here would be great. > > > -- > > > Christopher > > > > > > In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the > > > moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft > > > Windows 95. Something must have gone wrong. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- > Christopher > > In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the > moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft > Windows 95. Something must have gone wrong. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
