[Please use <76 character lines] On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:07:02 -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Why is the time as shown by asclock drifting so far from the real time? > Does Linux read the BIOS time, and therefore my BIOS clock is losing time > quickly,
Could be; see clock(8). > or is something else going on? Now the time is off by about 15 minutes, > and it makes crontab jobs sort of tricky. The time support also tries to keep drift in mind, using the file /etc/adjtime. Sometimes it helps to delete that file and then update the clock (clock --date=... ; clock --hctosys) daily for a couple of days. > Is there a way to sync the time with a server when I start a PPP, Yes, the NTP protocol. See the "ntp" and "ntpdate" packages. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
