On 09/12/05, Yassen Damyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for anyone using clockspeed successfully on > amd64. > > I have a success story 2 years ago using it on a Redhat 6 > system to correct a terribly drifting clock. It did a > *perfect* job for me. > > Now I am trying to use it to correct a clock that speeds up > about 1 sec. per hour, this on a Gentoo Linux / amd64 box, > and it does not work for me. > > Here's a log of what I did, following the INSTALL.gz: > > # DIARY of of the clockspeed tunning process: > > # YD, 2005-11-28: > # (#4) Tunned the clock via > # sntpclock `sntphost.sh` | clockadd > # (#5) Then started clockspeed and gave it a time measurement: > # clockspeed & > # sntpclock `sntphost.sh` > /var/lib/clockspeed/adjust & > # > # YD, 2005-11-30: > # (#6) second time measurement given via > # sntpclock `sntphost.sh` > /var/lib/clockspeed/adjust & > # > # YD, 2005-12-06: bad, clock drifting is now > # before: 2005-12-06 07:51:29.438417000000000000 > # after: 2005-12-06 07:51:15.661924499920696019 > > (sntphost.sh simply returns one IP address of a near-by sntp > server.) > > I am absolutely ignorant about any details of how clockspeed > works, so forgive me any stupidity. > > I am also aware that this sounds more like a question for the > clockspeed list itself, but I've already done that and got no > reply. > > What I can add to the above report: trying to access the atto file > fails, as it simply does not exist. The /var/lib/clockspeed/ looks > this way: > > dedi root # ls -la /var/lib/clockspeed/ > total 6 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 38 Nov 28 09:23 . > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 30 10:28 .. > prw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 30 12:01 adjust > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Feb 17 2005 leapsecs.dat > > Do I miss something? What might be wrong? I would appreciate > any help -- thank you! > > Yassen Damyanov > Troyer Information Systems > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > >
Bit of a typo in the subject :) -- Rob Lesslie -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
