Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread James Hiscock
i dont have that in my rc.conf file anymore, if i remember correctly it got changed to something in /etc/conf.d with my last emerge world and It's in /etc/conf.d/clock -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 21 January 2005 23:53, Nick Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date Fri Jan 21 16:43:56 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su Password: laptux nick # date Fri Jan 21 16:44:01 EST 2005 they are both in sync together, just both out of sync with the real time, my flux clock says its

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Sarpy Sam
You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If they won't tell you launch nslookup. Inside nslookup, you do: set type=any ntp.your.isp.domain nslookup? bash-2.05b# nslookup bash: nslookup:

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:35, Sarpy Sam wrote: You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If they won't tell you launch nslookup. Inside nslookup, you do: set type=any ntp.your.isp.domain

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:35, Sarpy Sam wrote: You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If they won't tell you launch nslookup. Inside nslookup, you do: set type=any

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Boot
Hi, dig and nslookup are in net-dns/bind-tools. HTH, Chris On 22 Jan 2005, at 15:05, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:35, Sarpy Sam wrote: You can use any NTP server. Of course, it make sense to use one close to you. Best would be to use your ISP's NPT server. Just ask them. If

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 21 January 2005 04:18, Mike Noble wrote: fire-eyes wrote: | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS battery. As for fluxbox's time | showing different, I've no idea what that's all about. Don't really know much

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-21 Thread Sebastian Flothow
Am 21. Jan 2005 um 02:57 Uhr schrieb Nick Smith: i just installed ntp, ran it, and my EST time was right on track, 30 mins later, its almost an hour off Sounds like you made the mistake of running ntpdate or ntp-client, which merely sets the time once, then leaves the local clock to do

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-21 Thread Nick Smith
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:44 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 04:18, Mike Noble wrote: fire-eyes wrote: | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS battery. As for fluxbox's time | showing different, I've no

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-21 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:11 +0100, Sebastian Flothow wrote: Regarding hardware and the CMOS battery: The kernel has a time counter which is initialized from the CMOS battery during boot, and written back to the CMOS clock during shutdown. While the system is runnning, another timer

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-21 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Smith wrote: | On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:44 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date | Fri Jan 21 16:43:56 EST 2005 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su | Password: | laptux nick # date | Fri Jan 21 16:44:01 EST 2005 | | they are both in sync

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-21 Thread Jason Cooper
Mike Noble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Nick Smith wrote: | On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:44 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date | Fri Jan 21 16:43:56 EST 2005 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su | Password: | laptux nick # date | Fri Jan 21 16:44:01 EST 2005 | | they are both

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:53 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:44 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 04:18, Mike Noble wrote: fire-eyes wrote: | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS

[gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-20 Thread Nick Smith
has anyone made a decent how-to to keep the time straight in gentoo? i just installed ntp, ran it, and my EST time was right on track, 30 mins later, its almost an hour offand on top of that, my clock in flux says 1:56am and the date command states its 9:54pm, this is one thing ive never been

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-20 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 01:57 +, Nick Smith wrote: has anyone made a decent how-to to keep the time straight in gentoo? i just installed ntp, ran it, and my EST time was right on track, 30 mins later, its almost an hour offand on top of that, my clock in flux says 1:56am and the date

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-20 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fire-eyes wrote: | | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS battery. As for fluxbox's time | showing different, I've no idea what that's all about. | Don't really know much about

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-20 Thread Nick Smith
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 18:18 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fire-eyes wrote: | | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS battery. As for fluxbox's time | showing different, I've no

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
If you have a laptop and a battery status applet running (or something thats reading /proc) try removing it and monitoring. I have a similar problem, but it comes and goes after being totally stable for many months. From another email I read, it might be the choice of timing source introduced in

Re: [gentoo-user] whos got the time?

2005-01-20 Thread mel
Nick Smith wrote: i dont have that in my rc.conf file anymore, if i remember correctly it got changed to something in /etc/conf.d with my last emerge world and when you boot it tells you, that you should change to the new way they want to do it. i cant seem to find it now, and also, this is a