Re: [newbie] systime running slow
-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- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] systime running slow
[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/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] systime running slow
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/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
