RE: I'm going nuts

[Karl Pearson <karlp ourldsfamily com>]

I just put the following lines in root's crontab file:

0,30 0-23 * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s clock.psu.edu
5,35 0-23 * * * /sbin/clock -w

That seems to do the trick for me.

Karl L. Pearson
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Senior Consulting Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mugleston, Brad wrote:

> Been there done that - I finally disabled chrony and the clock now matches
> the hardware clock - must be something in the chrony files but I had deleted
> all of the data files I could fine and on boot it would regenerate them all
> with these large adjustment numbers in them and I would be a day ahead of
> myself so I must have missed one somewhere.  With chrony off I don't get my
> daily clock correction but I guess that isn't as bad as being off by 24
> hours.
>
> If any of you have any ideas about working with Chrony I'd appreciate it as
> my son is due home from school in a few weeks and my network will be up most
> of the time again and that's when I was having so much drift I would be off
> quite a bit in a week.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Karl Pearson [SMTP:karlp ourldsfamily com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:56 PM
> > To:	RedHat
> > Subject:	Re: I'm going nuts
> >
> > It will be in your time settings. you can probably run
> >
> > setup
> >
> > at an 'su' prompt and select the correct time and date, then verify that
> > daylight savings time is honored. Make sure you don't have the box checked
> > for Hardware Clock Set To GMT.
> >
> > Karl L. Pearson
> > Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
> > Senior Consulting Database Analyst
> > karlp ourldsfamily com
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> >
> > > OK, I give up.   For some reason my RH 6.0 machine at home started
> > adding
> > > one day (24 hours) to my software clock.   If I look at the hardware
> > clock
> > > on boot up the correct date and time are there.  If I get into windows
> > the
> > > correct date and time are there but when I boot into Linux (which is
> > most of
> > > the time) I'm off by 24 hours (ahead).
> > >
> > > I'm not sure where it's messed up.
> > >
> > > during the boot process I can see the correct date and time displayed on
> > the
> > > screen as the boot process takes place then some time after that I get
> > my
> > > login and at that time something has added one day.
> > >
> > > I am using chrony to update my system time from the internet every time
> > I
> > > dial out.  I started doing this when my computer was on for weeks at a
> > time
> > > and it was loosing time.  for awhile it was working great.  Then on or
> > about
> > > the change for Day light savings my clock was off by an hour.  I went
> > into
> > > timeconfig and tried messing with different time zones (it was on
> > > America/Denver if I remember correctly).  Well there are lots of options
> > to
> > > select my time zone and I tried them all.  I don't know if that is what
> > > caused it or not.
> > >
> > > I know Linux keeps a log of how far the software clock is from the
> > hardware
> > > clock and will adjust that.  This is what I thought the problem was BUT
> > > either I can't find all the files or this isn't it.  - I've found two
> > chrony
> > > files that I deleted and both came back after reboot to what they were
> > > before and I can't find the system file that does the same thing but I
> > > believe I set it to all zeros.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this and on what time zone I
> > > should select to get daylight savings working OK next time around?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> > >
> > >
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