On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Randy Westlund <rwest...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm having some trouble with ntpd and my system clock. Every once and a > while, my system time is wrong. In the past (not having time to look into > it), I've just run ntp-client to correct it. > > Turns out that ntpd is crashing and `date` reports the UTC time, but thinks > it's Eastern. This time I didn't correct the time and tried rebooting a few > times. ntpd crashes within 5 minutes of boot, leading me to suspect the the > time being off is what's causing ntpd to crash. > > Info about my system: I dual boot with windows, so my /etc/conf.d/hwclock > looks like this: > >> clock="local" >> clock_systohc="YES" >> clock_hctosys="YES" >> clock_args="" > > I also have CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and CONFIG_RTC_SYSTORC set in my kernel. > > ntpd is in my default runlevel, ntp-client is not. > > My /etc/ntp.conf looks like this: > >> server 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org >> server 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org >> server 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org >> server 3.gentoo.pool.ntp.org >> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift >> restrict default nomodify nopeer noquery >> restrict 127.0.0.1 > > What am I doing wrong? Where should I look for more information on the > problem?
ntpd should not crash no matter what, but what is /etc/localtime? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
