On 2007-01-15 14:06, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > ...vmware... > <snip> > ntpdate -s on the clients. Then I initiate ntpd on the client. Or not, no > difference. The time in my clients lacks behing by several hours/day. > > - I'm currently trying a real dirty hack...on the client I'm running a > cronjob > every 10 minutes, doing a ntpdate -s -b IP-OF-TIMESERVER. I tried that hack > by running the cronjob every 30 minutes, - but that didn't work... Stop ntpd if it is running. Delete /etc/adjtime and reset the system time manually (you only need to be within a minute or so), then restart ntpd.
In a thread from last month, I found that this is a known vmware problem. In /boot/grub/menu.lst, add "clock=pit" to the kernel boot parameters. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]