[opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Hi list, - I've read and searched and read and searched all vmware docs and more...and still, I take the liberty to ask this list. Its got a little to do with SuSE10.2, so please forgive me... - I'm running SLES10 as a host OS onto which I'm running a number of SuSE10.2s using vmware server. M

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread J Sloan
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > Hi list, > > - I've read and searched and read and searched all vmware docs and more...and > still, I take the liberty to ask this list. Its got a little to do with > SuSE10.2, so please forgive me... > > - I'm running SLES10 as a host OS onto which I'm running a nu

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-15 14:06, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > ...vmware... > > ntpdate -s on the clients. Then I initiate ntpd on the client. Or not, no > difference. The time in my clients lacks behing by several hours/day. > > - I'm currently trying a real dirty hack...on the client I'm running a > cronjo

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - I've read and searched and read and searched all vmware docs and more...and still, I take the liberty to ask this list. Its got a little to do with SuSE10.2, so please forgive me... - I'm running SLES10 as a host OS onto which I'm running a number of SuSE1

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread J Sloan
Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: > Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> - I've read and searched and read and searched all vmware docs and >> more...and still, I take the liberty to ask this list. Its got a >> little to do with SuSE10.2, so please forgive me... >> >> - I'm running SLES10 as a host

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread J Sloan
Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-15 14:06, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: >> ...vmware... >> >> ntpdate -s on the clients. Then I initiate ntpd on the client. Or not, no >> difference. The time in my clients lacks behing by several hours/day. >> >> - I'm currently trying a real dirty hack...on

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
J Sloan wrote: Have a look at http://www.ntp.org. Or install package xntp / xntp-doc and read the documentation. You want to use a pool of time servers (preferably in a region near your machine), and then run the ntp service. ntpdate is the manual time sync tool. It is configurable though YaS

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: J Sloan wrote: Have a look at http://www.ntp.org. Or install package xntp / xntp-doc and read the documentation. You want to use a pool of time servers (preferably in a region near your machine), and then run the ntp service. ntpdate is the manual time sync tool. It

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Mandag 15 januar 2007 22:25 skrev Geir A. Myrestrand: > Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: > > J Sloan wrote: > >>> Have a look at http://www.ntp.org. > >>> Or install package xntp / xntp-doc and read the documentation. > >>> > >>> You want to use a pool of time servers (preferably in a region near > >>> yo

Re: [opensuse] Timesync problem

2007-01-15 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Dear list, - thank you for all of your inputs. - I'm afreid that I agree with the views of J Sloan, vmware is broken is this respect. - We'll either get a solution from vmware (Oh yes, we paid a lot for a lot of licenses..) or we'll look into Xen. We can do so, becaus