Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-06 Thread John Hasler
David Kanter wrote: Is there a way to sync the time with a server when I start a PPP, so I won't have to worry about this in the future? I vaguely remember a mention of this when installing Slink. Take a look at chrony. It does everything xntp does and its default configuration works fine

Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread David Kanter
Why is the time as shown by asclock drifting so far from the real time? Does Linux read the BIOS time, and therefore my BIOS clock is losing time quickly, or is something else going on? Now the time is off by about 15 minutes, and it makes crontab jobs sort of tricky. Is there a way to sync

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Please use 76 character lines] On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:07:02 -0500, David Kanter wrote: Why is the time as shown by asclock drifting so far from the real time? Does Linux read the BIOS time, and therefore my BIOS clock is losing time quickly, Could be; see clock(8). or is something else

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi David, On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:07:02AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: Is there a way to sync the time with a server when I start a PPP, so I won't have to worry about this in the future? I vaguely remember a mention of this when installing Slink. Check xntp and ntpdate. I believe there

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
Stephan Engelke said: Check xntp and ntpdate. I believe there is a .deb-package called xntp. Next place a call to ntpdate servername in your ip-up.d. Not to steal another Dave's question, but... Where can one find a list of publicly-usable NTP servers?

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Oct, Dave Sherohman wrote about Re: Clock is loosing time Stephan Engelke said: Check xntp and ntpdate. I believe there is a .deb-package called xntp. Next place a call to ntpdate servername in your ip-up.d. Not to steal another Dave's question, but... Where can one find a list

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread markzimm
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:35:13AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: Stephan Engelke said: Check xntp and ntpdate. I believe there is a .deb-package called xntp. Next place a call to ntpdate servername in your ip-up.d. Not to steal another Dave's question, but... Where can one find a list

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:17:18PM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: Hi David, On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:07:02AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: Is there a way to sync the time with a server when I start a PPP, so I won't have to worry about this in the future? I vaguely remember a mention