Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried touching it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. From 'man ntpd': ...

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/14/2006 6:32 AM Benno Schulenberg wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried touching it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Nick Rout
If your system stopped suddenly the ntp.drfit file may have become corrupted. As I understand it this file has a value in it that tells the system how much drift there is in the system clock, and uses the figutre to compensate. If the figure is way out then the compensation will be way out.

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/13/2006 1:11 PM Nick Rout wrote: If your system stopped suddenly the ntp.drfit file may have become corrupted. As I understand it this file has a value in it that tells the system how much drift there is in the system clock, and uses the figutre to compensate. If the figure is way out

[gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel running and have used ntpd in broadcastclient mode to keep its time in sync on my home network. The other day, the system suffered and abrupt shutdown due to a power outage. Ever since then, the system clock gains about 10 seconds every 5 minutes. Also, I