Re: Clock Skew Message

[larrys lexis-nexis com (Larry Snyder)]

You might also want to make sure you have ARC=true in
/etc/sysconfig/clock (or add the -A switch in your /sbin/clock line
at boot time.  Newer versions of clock have this fixed....
-ls-




Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> > I boot
> > into single user and did the following:
> 
> Single user probably means that you did not mount some file systems
> or you mounted them read only.  It was enough to log on as root
> in multiuser mode.
> 
> > 
> > #touch testfile
> > #find / -newer testfile -exec touch {} \;
> > 
> > Most of the stamps got updated execpt for some links and directories.
> 
> Symbolic links will not change without more drastic measures.
> Directories should.  Something was not done properly.
> 
> > When I tried to compile the 2.2.1 kernel the other night, I got the =
> > error
> > message:
> > 
> > *****clock skew detected:  your build may not be complete*****
> 
> It looks like you still have files with timestamps in the future.
> 
>   --mj
> 
> p.s. thank you for not posting html on a mailing list
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