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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Just in the last week or so my AMD64 machine has started to exhibit |
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> problems with the clock. Maybe it's a hardware problem, or possibly |
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> it's some new ntpd issue after updates. At boot time it seems to be |
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> coming up with semi-random times. This is causing me to ask a few |
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> questions and try to learn a bit more about how this actually works |
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> under Linux. Thanks in advance. |
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> |
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First thing to do is to check that the symlink `/etc/localtime' still |
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points to a valid timezone data file. For instance: |
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$ ls -l /etc/localtime |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jan 21 21:52 /etc/localtime -> |
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/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern |
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works well where I live. When I have clock problems, this symlink is |
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almost always the problem. |
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In /etc/conf.d/clock, I have CLOCK="UTC", CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" , and |
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CLOCK_OPTS="". |
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BobS |
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