On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:44 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Friday 21 January 2005 04:18, Mike Noble wrote: > > fire-eyes wrote: > > | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like > > | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS battery. As for fluxbox's time > > | showing different, I've no idea what that's all about. > > > > Don't really know much about flux, but does it have a timezone setting > > which is probably set to the wrong time zone. > > > > As for the time being off by by an hour after 30 minutes, really does > > sound like a MB battery issue. I would start by replacing the battery > > in the MB. > > I don't think this is good advice. Unless you manually read the hardware > clock > and write to the system clock using "hwclock", the system doesn't touch the > hardware clock but once during bootup. > > I suspect messed up timezone settings. Could it be that the system and users > are on different timezones? Do a "date" as root and as one or two different > users and watch not only the time itself but also what it says about > timezones. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date Fri Jan 21 16:43:56 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su Password: laptux nick # date Fri Jan 21 16:44:01 EST 2005
they are both in sync together, just both out of sync with the real time, my flux clock says its 9:44, my localtime is linked to: localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern, and i doubt its a battery issue, cause i have 4 gentoo boxes going and they all have different times, none correct, this is the only one i have messed with ntp on, i want to make sure i can get it working before i do it on the other machines. what servers are people using in their ntpd.conf? i have: server pool.ntp.org is there an EST server i should be using? what other settings should i have in that file? i have: driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift restrict default nomodify nopeer restrict 127.0.0.1 thanks for the help > Uwe > > -- > Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: > If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. > > http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) > -- [email protected] mailing list
