On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 12:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:52:09 -0500 > Steven Stern wrote: > > > service ntpd stop > > ntpdate nist1-chi.ustiming.org > > service ntpd start > > > > This morning, the time is once again off. It appears that ntp is not > > synching time. I see nothing unusual in /var/log/messages. > > NTP suffers from acute malignant optimism about how well the > native computer can keep time. With a clock that is rotten enough, > NTP will never manage to sync. I have had many motherboards > that seem to lose or gain so fast that NTP cannot fix it. I usually > resort to running ntpdate on cron every 5 minutes to get some > vaguely accurate time :-(. ---- If your internal clock can't keep time correctly, disable it - see my previous post Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines