On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: > > My system clock seems to gain an extra five minutes per hour, > <snip> > > Any ideas? > > Yep, I just use ntp (see BLFS). My hardware clock seems to gain even > when the system is switched off! I have a bootscript that syncs the > clock to an ntp server at bootup, ntpd runs whilst the box is up, and > the hardware clock is set to the same time as the software clock on > shutdown.
My desktops are both using ntp against a local server with similar constraints on the hwclock. Every boot shows a difference - usually less than a second if I'm rebooting to try a new kernel or whatever, sometimes a bit longer if that box has been powered off. That's just the way it works, unless somebody knows differently. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
