On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:23 am, you wrote: > A virus. Hmmmm, that is odd, can I ask have does your uid have root > priviliges?
no > You have to be root or have root priviliges to change the system timezone > and > time. I think if your system crashed and you are using a file system like > reiserfs > then you may loose settings. I have also found my Mandrake will loose it's > ethernet card. I have put it down to a crappy motherboard and CPU that > crashes > when the system get's too hot or over worked. > > The other thing is do you have NTPd running? I have found that if NTPd can > not > find a time server then occasionally time will jump around. I don't know > about > jumping timezones. > > Unless your system has been owned, through an exploitable service you have > left running. ? which one could be such a target and how does one prevent it.. > > I would advise you have a look for known linux virus, I think there are > only a couple > and they are pretty much extinct. > > Anyone have any suggestions on how this time change has been effected? > > I have a Linux Mandrake 9.2 box. > > TIA > > Nicholas Tomlin. Kevin, sluggers, etc... thank you. You can stop worrying.. with Linux, in contrast to $M, it is only the idiot on the keyboard that causes the problems, this is no exception. One should restrain children from fiddling with preferences on a computer. Apparently under KDE 3.1 if you right click on the clock and then select time zone preferences, you can nominate which time zone you want to view, in this event it was Los Angeles... I�m still learning how to drive this thing after more than 4 years of fiddling with Linux.. and it looks as if I have a very long way to go. Thanks all, Nicholas Tomlin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
