Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:10 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > Thank you the the hwclock tip it will solve my problem exactly. > > Unfortunatly it seems my problems were deeper and beyond the scope of this > thread really, the loss of time was due to "something" within the kernel > that I built last we

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-31 Thread Stuart Howard
Thank you the the hwclock tip it will solve my problem exactly. Unfortunatly it seems my problems were deeper and beyond the scope of this thread really, the loss of time was due to "something" within the kernel that I built last week I also realised that my hard disk performance had fallen drama

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote: > thanks for the response > > So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put > it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a > default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean > ought not to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread John Jolet
ntp of any flavor does not seem to be in the default install, i had to emerge it on all my boxes. I'm from an ibm rs/6000 aix background, so I learned long ago to NEVER trust the system clock. rs/6000 boxes tend to have very poor hardware clocks for some reasonprobably because you never pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Stuart Howard
thanks for the response So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean ought not to have removed it as it should "belong" to something [world , s

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > - I tried to install "chrony" to adjust the time, though it seems to > be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time, > could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost > something that checks or sync's the system time

[gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I am losing up to 10 minites a day on my system clock ie. if it is correct at boot then the following day, "date" will reply with a time that has lost up to 10 minites. Points that may be relavent, - The system has "worked" correctly for many months prior to next point. - This problem has oc