Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Marty
Glenn English wrote: The only thing I can think of is that something got bent in the power failure -- something that the Debian boot process doesn't look at and set, but BSD does. But I don't quite believe it, and I have no suspects for the "something." One thing a power failure (or possibly runnin

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Bob Freemer wrote: > Wrong. NTP will fail to update the clock if the hardware clock skew is > too large. NTP cannot operate without a reasonably stable internal > hardware clock. Although there is an option to force ntp to set the clock, however large the difference is. -- Stephen Patterson [E

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 02:25 -0400, Marty wrote: > I don't want to argue if you are happy, but it doesn't sound fixed > to me. NTP should keep your clock on time to within a few miliseconds. > If you notice any abrupt changes that means NTP is definitely not > working. That's what I was trying t

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Marty
Bob Freemer wrote: Marty wrote: Glenn English wrote: Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron. I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Bob Freemer
Marty wrote: Glenn English wrote: Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron. I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge into getting it's a

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-13 Thread Marty
Glenn English wrote: Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron. I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge into getting it's act together

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-13 Thread Glenn English
Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron. I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge into getting it's act together, I guess. Earlier to