Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Tuck
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > It may actually be due to the *documented* behavior of adjtime. > ... This makes a lot of sense. I vaguely remember something about this happening when I found my clock out by months. In this case, I imagine it would be a good idea to set a drift threshhold wherein ad

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Carline wrote: > > Judith Elaine Bush wrote: > > > I have three identical new thin clients with as identical a set-up as i > > can manage to create -- and one shows this problem. It's particularly > > annoying as i had the system set to reboot at a certain time every day > > (mainly to clean

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-16 Thread Matthew Tuck
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > I had this problem couple of days ago. It appeares that > /etc/adjtime got corrupted somehow. Now I am wondering if that > is a bug. Anyway, try removing /etc/adjtime and setting the correct time > with date or ntpdate. In my case the problem went away. It's gone away

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-15 Thread John Carline
Judith Elaine Bush wrote: > I have three identical new thin clients with as identical a set-up as i > can manage to create -- and one shows this problem. It's particularly > annoying as i had the system set to reboot at a certain time every day > (mainly to clean up any flakiness from Netscape) --

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-15 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
I have three identical new thin clients with as identical a set-up as i can manage to create -- and one shows this problem. It's particularly annoying as i had the system set to reboot at a certain time every day (mainly to clean up any flakiness from Netscape) -- and the system would set itself

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-15 Thread John Carline
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:41PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: > > I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place. > > > It's not a hardware > > fault because I can set it under Windows and it will stay correct. It > > seems every time I boot

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-15 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:41PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: > I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place. > At the moment I have to set it every start up, when I remember that is. > I have searched the archives and not found anything. > > Basically the clock is out by

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
One possibility is you need a new battery. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!