Note ntpdate is in the ntp RPM on your install CD
It works fine in a cron job derek On Friday 12 Jul 2002 9:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.07.02 09:59:45: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Friday 12 July 2002 7:41 am, Holger Neven wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week > > > now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the > > > systime, it is running slow, about 10 Minutes an hour. The hwclock > > > though is working fine, but on reboot, the system seems to set the > > > hwclock by systime, so on the next bootup the time in the hwclock is > > > wrong, too. > > > > > > Does anybody know this problem? Or can somebody tell me, where I > > > should take a look at to solve this problem? > > > > If it were the other way round (hwclock influencing systime) the most > > likely explanation would be the clock battery on the motherboard > > running low. No idea what's causing the observed behaviour. > > > > Failing that, xntp is an easy way to (semi)automatically set the systime > > via a time server; urpmi xntp will install it and its home page is: > > > > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ > > > > I don't bother with the daemon but, every so often, do > > > > ntpdate ntp0.strath.ac.uk > > > > Alastair > > - -- > > Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) > > http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > iD8DBQE9Lov5Cv59vFiSU4YRAqrNAKCyICsg/ZCSkeLjjeLliONmvRp3UACglO3g > > +4/8DD/hUJajcUL4edFmuAg= > > =l6St > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Hi Scott, > thanks for the answer, I will try this. At least I can get my systime right > with this.... > > Holger > ___________________________________________________________________________ >___ WEB.DE MyPage - Ohne Computerkenntnisse in nur 5 Minuten online! Alles > inklusive! Kinderleicht! http://www.das.ist.aber.ne.lustige.sache.ms/
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