On 12 June 2006 15:32, John J. Foster wrote: > Good morning all, > > About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our > electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused > my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been > lost. After setting what I could remember (no, I didn't have them written > down), I brought Gentoo back up. Massive complaints about the time being > off (I had forgotten to set the hardware clock). > > # /etc/init.d/ntpd stop > followed by > # ntpdate pool.ntp.org
after this: hwclock -wu to get your hardware clock right. Without "u" if your hw clock is running in local time. > set the system time correctly. So I > #/etc/init.d/ntpd start > > Since then, ntpd does not work. > According to ps, ntpd is running > > //garbanzo/etc # ps aux|grep ntp > root 19874 0.0 0.3 3656 3656 ? SLs 09:05 0:00 > /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid > > But all that shows in the /var/log/ntp.log is > 12 Jun 09:05:46 ntpd[19515]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 It probably terminated right after your "ps". Would be interesting to know why it is terminating. Maybe you should run ntpd in the foreground once: ntpd -n Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
