in reply to RE: Broken Chatterbox
in thread Broken Chatterbox

Ummm, like this may be a really dumb question, but why not put a cron entry in to keep the clock set?

rdate -s rolex.peachnet.edu works for me, every hour, on the hour.

--Chris

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RE: (3) Broken Chatterbox (hwclock vs. system clock)
by ybiC (Prior) on Aug 14, 2000 at 15:58 UTC
    Does rdate adjust the system clock or the hardware clock?

    I understood vroom to mean that the system clock is fine (likely uses NTP client) but the underlying hardware clock drifted waaaay off.   This would only be a problem after power-cycle.

    I have the same problem with a Debian box.   Sometime I'll get around to cron'ing this: hwclock --systohc, which should keep the hardware clock from drifting so far.
        cheers,
        ybiC

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