On Mon, 2 Jun 2025, Rich Shepard wrote:
I've not used my laptop in a long time and today I saw the gkrellm time
display is 2 minutes slow compared to my watch and the always-on desktop.
On slackware the ntpd controlling script is /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd and it has a
restart capabilty. But when root commanded `rc.ntpd restart' the system told
me that I didn't have permission to do this. Since the file is owned by root
and has 755 perms I'm puzzled why the command didn't work.
I know nothing about Slackware's ntpd setup, so in place of actual
knowledge, I'd suggest this (all as root):
rc.ntpd stop
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
rc.ntpd start
The ntpdate command will force the system's time to update, even if
it's a long way out of sync with standard time servers.
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Paul Heinlein
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