On December 6, 2007 05:54:39 am Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: > > Carlos, > > > > I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the > > problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, > > as root, from the command line? You know, the old > > > > ntpdate -u <IP-address-of-time-server> > > It works, of course. That's what I'm doing every time NTP quits. > > The problem is that NTP can't keep the system clock disciplined, it strays > off as soon as NTP looses the network peers, and not a second or two, but > several minutes. > > It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem.
Actually, it looks way more like a hardware problem than a software problem. Normally I can run any of my systems for more than a month without being more than a minute or two off. Have you considered that the backup battery may be low, or that you have a power supply problem? Of course, one way to check it is if the same hardware shows different timing problems is to reinstall 10.2 but I know what a PITA that is. -- Bob Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
