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From: "John J. Foster" <gentoo-user@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:39:19
Message-Id: Pine.WNT.4.64.0606121010550.3552@WSA-G7950JF6.genmills.com
1 Good morning all,
2
3 About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our
4 electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused
5 my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been
6 lost. After setting what I could remember (no, I didn't have them written
7 down), I brought Gentoo back up. Massive complaints about the time being
8 off (I had forgotten to set the hardware clock).
9
10 # /etc/init.d/ntpd stop
11 followed by
12 # ntpdate pool.ntp.org
13 set the system time correctly. So I
14 #/etc/init.d/ntpd start
15
16 Since then, ntpd does not work.
17 According to ps, ntpd is running
18
19 //garbanzo/etc # ps aux|grep ntp
20 root 19874 0.0 0.3 3656 3656 ? SLs 09:05 0:00
21 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
22
23 But all that shows in the /var/log/ntp.log is
24 12 Jun 09:05:46 ntpd[19515]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
25
26 I've also noticed that the software clock is running about 2 minutes fast
27 per hour. I know I could setup a cron job to run ntpdate regularly, but
28 that is the wrong solution. ntpd had been working fine for years.
29
30 Does anyone have any possible ideas what could have happened here?
31
32 Thanks,
33 festus
34
35 --
36 It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
37 clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.
38 Noam Chomsky
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Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>