Re: Upgrade frustrations (in testing) with shorewall crashes, clock troubles, tomcat4 crashes

2006-03-09 Thread Adam Porter
Michael Bonert wrote: > On shutdown I was getting something like this: > - > Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 > OUT=MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:25:f0:a9:d3:08:026369 PROTO=UDP SPT=29943 > DPT=152 LEN=128 > - > I couldn't do anything about it. It seemed to be stuck in a loop... where > the n

Re: Upgrade frustrations (in testing) with shorewall crashes, clock troubles, tomcat4 crashes

2006-03-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
dged by Shields Up -- https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 > If I shutdown shorewall and run the sequence at Shields Up --- I get all > green. With the config I copied from Mandrake-- I get one blue port (closed > (green) vs. hidden (blue)). this is misleading. grc.com is geared to Window

Re: Upgrade frustrations (in testing) with shorewall crashes, clock troubles, tomcat4 crashes

2006-03-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006, Michael Bonert wrote: > With the recent upgrade there is some sort of universal time eastern > standard time conflict. My computer when I boot-up has the clock turned > back 5 hours (the difference between Greenwich and where I live --with DST > compensation). That's a real b

Upgrade frustrations (in testing) with shorewall crashes, clock troubles, tomcat4 crashes

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Bonert
the above problem, I have the impression shorewall makes me more insecure-- as judged by Shields Up -- https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 If I shutdown shorewall and run the sequence at Shields Up --- I get all green. With the config I copied from Mandrake-- I get one blue port (closed (green) vs. hidd

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

Re: clock troubles

2005-05-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Glenn English wrote: > The system clock on one of my machines is running way slow. If I > repeatedly run 'date' the second changes once every 3 or 4 seconds. > ntpdate will bring it into line, but ntpd can't keep it there. are you using the same ntp server for ntpdate and n

Re: clock troubles

2005-05-12 Thread John Hasler
Marty writes: > I have not yet reported this as a bug. It isn't a bug. You need to recompile your kernel with HZ defined as something less than the default 1000. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clock troubles

2005-05-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/05/05 00:04), Clive Menzies wrote: > On (12/05/05 16:59), Glenn English wrote: > > The system clock on one of my machines is running way slow. If I > > repeatedly run 'date' the second changes once every 3 or 4 seconds. > > ntpdate will bring it into line, but ntpd can't keep it there. > >

Re: clock troubles

2005-05-12 Thread Marty
Glenn English wrote: The system clock on one of my machines is running way slow. If I repeatedly run 'date' the second changes once every 3 or 4 seconds. ntpdate will bring it into line, but ntpd can't keep it there. I don't understand how this can happen. My experience with digital electronics say

Re: clock troubles

2005-05-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 12 May 2005 23:59, Glenn English wrote: > I don't understand how this can happen. My experience with digital > electronics says that things almost never work half-way; they're fine, > or they're dead. Anybody know what the system clock actually is? A > counter counting the line frequenc

Re: clock troubles

2005-05-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/05/05 16:59), Glenn English wrote: > The system clock on one of my machines is running way slow. If I > repeatedly run 'date' the second changes once every 3 or 4 seconds. > ntpdate will bring it into line, but ntpd can't keep it there. > > I don't understand how this can happen. My experie

clock troubles

2005-05-12 Thread Glenn English
The system clock on one of my machines is running way slow. If I repeatedly run 'date' the second changes once every 3 or 4 seconds. ntpdate will bring it into line, but ntpd can't keep it there. I don't understand how this can happen. My experience with digital electronics says that things almost

Re: My clock troubles me unexpectedly

1998-09-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
George Bonser hat gesagt: // George Bonser wrote: > Sorry, I could not help but laugh. Every morning my clock also troubles me > unexpectedly too. Yeah, I know this "boot time" trouble as well. Especially on sunday mornings when I have reached my "maximum mount count" the evening before and e2fs

My clock troubles me unexpectedly

1998-09-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hello list, somehow the time settings on my machine are messed up. The reason is: /sbin/hwclock does not work anymore. Instead it gives this error message: $ hwclock --test --debug Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno = No such file or directory (2). falling back to more primitive clock access method