Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-29 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 28/11/05 18:47 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few days I see that it's lost quite some hours again?

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why not synchronize by running ntpd? or rdate? sure if you know the host you are using as a reference is itself reliably referenced! on Technical University near where i live they attached atomic clock time receiver (this signal is transmitted somewhere i don't know well this) to one of

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-29 Thread werther . pirani
on Technical University near where i live they attached atomic clock time receiver (this signal is transmitted somewhere i don't know well this) to one of their suns, and it gives rdate and ntp protocol out. i use it on all my servers. Here's a list of public, and 100% official I(i.e.,

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Here's a list of public, and 100% official I(i.e., stratum 1 ntp servers): http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html Pick any of them and add it/tem to /etc/ntp.conf, then set up things so that ntpd is started at boot time and you're set (I actually have 3 of them

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-29 Thread RW
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pick any of them and add it/tem to /etc/ntp.conf, then set up things so that ntpd is started at boot time and you're set You really need ntpdate as well, which performs a gross correction during boot. If you already have ntp

system time slowing down ?

2005-11-28 Thread Odhiambo Washington
For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few days I see that it's lost quite some hours again? What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed, but phenomena is still there. My localtime is set to

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-28 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few days I see that it's lost quite some hours again? What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed,

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-28 Thread Vizion
On Monday 28 November 2005 15:40, the author Odhiambo Washington contributed to the dialogue on- system time slowing down ?: For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few days I see that it's lost quite

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is still there. My localtime is set to correctly using sysinstall so I don't doubt it. Why not synchronize by running ntpd? or rdate? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-28 Thread Vizion
On Monday 28 November 2005 16:00, the author Wojciech Puchar contributed to the dialogue on- Re: system time slowing down ?: is still there. My localtime is set to correctly using sysinstall so I don't doubt it. Why not synchronize by running ntpd? or rdate? sure if you know the host

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vizion wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 16:00, Wojciech Puchar: [ ... ] Why not synchronize by running ntpd? or rdate? sure if you know the host you are using as a reference is itself reliably referenced! There's nothing wrong with rdate, but the NTPv4 protocol includes tests and