On 2 Nov 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 11:29, Jim Christiansen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Kind of a repost....sorry... > > > > Has anyone else done a RH8 install to discover that whether you choose > > net-time, or not, even root can not adjust the time or date? One person > > mailed me with the report that he had experienced similar problems with null > > (as I had also encountered)... > > I have been able to set the time, but ntpd is not keeping my clock up to > date. I am losing 3-5 minutes every day and have to set it by running > netdate manually. I haven't looked into the problem yet. > > Best Regards, > Keith I don't recall the beginning of this thread, but if this is a laptop (especially a Dell), then there is an issue with the battert status applet (see Bugzilla #74645). There are a number of workarounds suggested in the bugzilla report. I keep my clock in sync with adjtimex, but you need to be careful about following the suggestions made by "adjtimex --sync". They are usually more extreme than necessary. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@clemson.edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
