Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

[John Jolet]

ntp of any flavor does not seem to be in the default install, i had to emerge 
it on all my boxes.  I'm from an ibm rs/6000 aix background, so I learned 
long ago to NEVER trust the system clock.  rs/6000 boxes tend to have very 
poor hardware clocks for some reason....probably because you never pay that 
much for a server not connected to something :)

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:17, Stuart Howard wrote:
> thanks for the response
>
> So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put
> it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a
> default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean
> ought not to have removed it as it should "belong" to something [world
> , system ]
>
> I may give up on chrony and put a ntp on and see if that cures it,
> though I prefer not to just mask a problem if there is one, could a
> clock slowdown be something as serious as an indication of hardware
> problems?
>
> stu
>
> On 8/30/05, A. Khattri <ajai@××××.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > > - I tried to install "chrony" to adjust the time, though it seems to
> > > be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time,
> > > could there be a permissions   issue somewhere or have I lost
> > > something that checks or sync's the system time?
> > > -  As I wrote last question I realised that I did my first "emerge -av
> > > --depclean" a few days ago is it possible that I have removed some app
> > > that keeps a check on system time?
> >
> > Maybe you had ntp installed?
> >
> >
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