[TriLUG] A clock problem

Craig Duncan craigduncan at nc.rr.com
Mon Jul 18 22:08:12 EDT 2005


Randall Barlow wrote:

>Michael Tharp wrote:
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>>/etc/conf.d/clock should do it, just comment out the rc.conf definition.
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>OK, so now the clock doesn't change itself to random times anymore, but
>I've been noticing that the clock is now drifting away from the correct
>time slowly.  Before, when I had the clock set to "local" in rc.conf,
>the clock would be updated by ntpd just fine upon booting.  Now, it
>doesn't seem that ntpd is updating the clock.  Anyone know how to fix
>this?  (Gentoo...)
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>Thanks,
>Randy Barlow
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In /etc/conf.d/clock set CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes". This should make sure that
the internal clock is set by ntpd on shutdown.

Craig



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