Am I doing something silly here?
I am going to "www.redhat.com" and "serach the marketplace: Software".
I then do a search on "ntp" and it comes back with "no resultd found".
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Mark.
>===== Original Message From Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mark Hannah wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone for replying...this was the exact problem...dual boot
with
>> windows. I have updates the hardware clock and things are perfect now.
>>
>> I don't have an "ntpdate" command though. Is it simply a matter of
>> downloading
>> this prog and running it? Or does it need any other config?
>
>ntpdate is part of the ntp package, which tries to keep your clock
>synchronised with various time servers dotted around the Internet, it
>takes into account latency in packets and jitter in the time-servers to
>get a best-guess of the correct time.
>
>ntpdate does a one-shot request from a particular time-server and updates
>the system time accordingly. ntpd is the daemon that maintains the system
>time by periodically (typ. 2-3 minutes) contacts a selection of
>time-servers to make sure everything's ok.
>
>To get it, either get hold of the ntp package (ntp-4.0.99k-15.i386.rpm,
>for RH) or compile the source (which is painless).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul.
>
>> >===== Original Message From Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>> >Hi Mark,
>> >
>> >On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mark Hannah wrote:
>> >> Can anyone help me with a problem that has been driving me crazy for the
>> last
>> >> few weeks?
>> >>
>> >> Since we switched to BST, my linux time has somehow got an hour ahead.
>> >> I can chage the time by doing :-
>> >>
>> >> date --set='-1 hour'
>> >>
>> >> but, on the next re-boot the time reverts back to being an hour fast.
>> >> Can anyone tell me what is going on?
>> >
>> >Is this a dual boot with a windows machine, by an chance ?
>> >
>> >Ok, There are two distinct clocks on a PC a `hardware' clock (works when
>> >the power is off, but tends to drift badly) and a `system' clock
>> >(maintained by Linux in software, generally a lot better but not perfect).
>> >
>> >On power-up (in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for the curious), Linux reads the
>> >time from the hardware clock. There are two conventions for the hardware
>> >clock: storing UTC or local time. If you store UTC in your hardware clock,
>> >then you don't have to alter the clock when entering BST, if you store
>> >local time then you do.
>> >
>> >To alter the hardware clock, use the hwclock command, e.g.:
>> > hwclock (look at current time in hardware clock)
>> > hwclock --systohc (copies system clock to hardware clock, assuming
>> > hardware clock stores local time)
>> > hwclock --systohc --utc (as above but hardware clock stores UTC)
>> >
>> >Unfortunately, windows assumes that the hardware clock stores the local
>> >time and will adjust the clock accordingly when entering BST, hence the
>> >problem. You can either reset the clock to UTC and live with windows
>> >having the wrong idea of time, or update Linux to mirror windows'
>> >behaviour. If you have a RedHat machine, look at the /etc/sysconfig/clock
>> >file and change UTC=true to UTC=false.
>> >
>> >HTH
>> >
>> >Paul.
>> >
>> >PS. If you are going to use ntp (which is very good) make sure you've
>> >updated your copy. There's a vulnerability that can lead to a remote root
>> >compromise. Updates are available from RedHat (and I assume SuSE,
>> >mandrake, ...)
>> >
>>
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