I have had a similar problem with mobos in the past. A gigabyte board as I remember. fixed it by replacing the battery. Cheers Chris T
= = = Original message = = = Disappointingly the clock is back to drifting again, so a cron job every 10 minutes it is . . . The board in question is an Asus M2N which has been fine in all other regards. Roger Roger Searle wrote: > I'm pleased to report that time on that box is no longer drifting. So > I won't need to implement one of these options, and will give some > thought to the "no" answer to point 1. > > Thanks to everyone for their replies. > Roger > > > Steve Holdoway wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:15:21 +1200 >> Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> so 2 options seem to be valid: >>> >>> 1. if the drift is small enough between the frequent ntp restarts >>> then"service ntp restart" will suffice. >>> >> No. This is still incorrect. >> >>> 2. "service ntp stop && ntpdate ntp.massey.ac.nz && service ntp >>> start" will cover drifts beyond what ever the ntp maximum adjustment >>> is. >>> >> Yes >> >>> Do I have my head around this sufficiently now? And what is that >>> maximum tolerance ntp can deal with? >>> >>> Roger >>> >>> >>> Steve Holdoway wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:48:38 +1200 >>>> Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'll see what date shows me tomorrow. Google tells me that some >>>>> people >>>>> have resolved this issue by appending "noapic acpi=off" to grub. >>>>> If I >>>>> am still getting nowhere then I believe having cron do "service >>>>> ntp stop >>>>> && service ntp start" for me a few times an hour will work. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Roger >>>>> >>>> No, it won't! the ntp daemon resets your local time against an >>>> external source. This runs constantly, and is capable of a) >>>> learning how your machine's clock drifts, and b) making small >>>> changes to keep it in step. To make large changes, you need to use >>>> ntpdate, which is an one off process, rather than constant. >>>> >>>> Historically, ntpdate was run once as a part of the ntpd init >>>> script, putting the clock right on startup with ntpdate, and then >>>> keeping it correct from then on with ntpd. >>>> >>>> Steve. >>>> >> >> > ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.
