At some point around Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:27:49 +1100, marty said:
> On my box (deadrat 6.2) the hwclock reports the right GMT but the system
> clock seems to have drifted over the 20 days the box has been up so it is
> now about quarter of an hour slow...
If the load average is *massive* then the system time can drift
- we were losing about a quarter hour a day on our firewall when
we had IPCHAINS logging turned on...
>
> any suggestions for why that is happening and a [fix | pointers to docs] ?
if you're on dial up the best solution is ntpdate -
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
-Thom
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