ntp of any flavor does not seem to be in the default install, i had to emerge it on all my boxes. I'm from an ibm rs/6000 aix background, so I learned long ago to NEVER trust the system clock. rs/6000 boxes tend to have very poor hardware clocks for some reason....probably because you never pay that much for a server not connected to something :)
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:17, Stuart Howard wrote: > thanks for the response > > So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put > it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a > default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean > ought not to have removed it as it should "belong" to something [world > , system ] > > I may give up on chrony and put a ntp on and see if that cures it, > though I prefer not to just mask a problem if there is one, could a > clock slowdown be something as serious as an indication of hardware > problems? > > stu > > On 8/30/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > - I tried to install "chrony" to adjust the time, though it seems to > > > be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time, > > > could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost > > > something that checks or sync's the system time? > > > - As I wrote last question I realised that I did my first "emerge -av > > > --depclean" a few days ago is it possible that I have removed some app > > > that keeps a check on system time? > > > > Maybe you had ntp installed? > > > > > > -- > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand > binary, those who don't" > > --Unknown -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
