There was at one time a bug on one of the IBM desktop systems. When the system went to power save, the clock would slowly lose count over time. This was why I sugested a BIOS flash. It affected the way power was sent to chips on the mother board, which affected cycles performed which....etc. SO you still might want to update your BIOS.
I actually know that Linux ignores the HW clock (oddly enough), UNLESS you tell it to go off the HW clock which is an option on Mandrake's install I think. -sp On Wed, 20 February 2002, Henry House wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:20:40AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > [...] > > ryan, you tell the firewall what services you want to run...the > > firewall isn't supposed to tell you! > > He may be referring to the facist firewall at the high school, using his > notebook. > > Ryan: if this is a home firewall, can you tell us about it? Is it Seawall or > a similar packaged script? Or a custom bunch or ipchains or iptables calls? > It should not be difficult to poke a hole in the firewall to let NTP through. > The hole need be opened only to the NTP servers, no to the entire net, so the > security impact is minimal. > > -- > Henry House > The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> > for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
