Geat, 100% correct, iam using NIS nad NFS to export my home directory
and iam building in my home dir (exported from the server)
It all makes sense now
Cheers
Mark
On 05 Aug 2001 12:06:03 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:50:17PM +0100, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> | I know this is not really intended for this list, but when installing
> | tarballs (of any sort) i generally get this error:
> |
> | make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.
> |
> | Ive checked the system time and it seems o.k (thats what i take the
> | error as, that some where the time sync has got astray)
>
> This is because the files are not stored on your local machine (let's
> call it "A"), but on another (NFS typically - call this "B"). The other
> machine's clock is not in sync with yours. When you create a file on this
> filesystem it will get the timestamp from "B" because that's where the
> file is really being made. This then looks different to "now" on your
> machine "A".
>
> This _can_ cause problems because sucessive makes depend on file
> timestamps, and normally the newly made file will be younger than the
> things it's made from. With clock skew this may not end up being the case.
>
> The fix is to sync both machines to each other, usually by using an NTP
> service.
> --
> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>
> Sadly, some of the classic UNIX jokes like 'ar t god' don't work any
> more. There's always 'cat "tin of cat food"', though.
> - mathew, [EMAIL PROTECTED], about Solaris
> The old standby "got a light?" still works, though.
> - JZ (Jeff Zurschmeide), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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