Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it > looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the answer > but as the difference between the system(pc) and the actual(ntp) time is > so great it won't work. > > So how can I get ntpd to set time WHATEVER the system time is, > regardless if it is 1980.
On my laptop, I've added the -g switch to ntpd's startup, so the first time it syncs, it forcibly resets to the NTP time if that's out of bounds. Doing this involved editing /etc/init.d/ntp-simple and adding '-- -g' to the end of the start-stop-daemon lines that start ntpd. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
