Re: [newbie] clock gaining several hours a day
Thanks to everyone who helped me. I didn't get to try any of the suggestions, though. I received my Mandrake 7 CD in the mail before I tried any of the suggestions. I installed it and my problem has gone away. I never did find out what caused the problem in the first place. Michelle -- "Just because kittens are born in the hearth oven, that doesn't make them muffins." Kahlan Amnell in _Temple of the Winds_ by Terry Goodkind.
Re: [newbie] clock gaining several hours a day
You could use an internet time server to get the exact time : rdate -s ben.cs.wisc.edu And you could add this line in a startup script or in a cron job. HTH Flupke Michelle Schneider wrote: Ever since I had a power outage while running Linux my clock has been messed up. It gains several hours a day. The first thing I do every day is reset the clock. I'm running Mandrake 6.0. Any suggestions? Michelle -- "Just because kittens are born in the hearth oven, that doesn't make them muffins." Kahlan Amnell in _Temple of the Winds_ by Terry Goodkind.
Re: [newbie] clock gaining several hours a day
setup nntpd (or xntpd) all of the following is done as root and then call /sbin/hwclock --systohc in a cron my ntp.conf looks like this: # These are EST time server! need to use a time server in your timezone server 128.118.25.3 server 192.220.202.75 make sure that xntpd is set to start at boot use linuxconf, or just cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d ln -s ../init.d/xntpd S70xntp cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d ln -s ../init.d/xntpd s70xntp now type crontab -e and add something like this 00,15,30,45 * * * * /sbin/hwclock --systohc the above will set the bios clock to the linux clock ever 15 minutes. this will also ensure that once you boot/start linux xntp will go out and set you linux clock to the current time. Michelle Schneider wrote: Ever since I had a power outage while running Linux my clock has been messed up. It gains several hours a day. The first thing I do every day is reset the clock. I'm running Mandrake 6.0. Any suggestions? Michelle -- "Just because kittens are born in the hearth oven, that doesn't make them muffins." Kahlan Amnell in _Temple of the Winds_ by Terry Goodkind.
