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Date:      Mon, 19 May 2008 13:31:13 -0500
From:      Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Buildworld Fails RELENG_7
Message-ID:  <20080519183113.GA55295@charter.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080519180028.GA79392@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:00:28AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> Something I thought of while doing the above: there's been reports in
> the past of problems with buildworld (or building software in general)
> bombing out or behaving oddly due to clock issues on the local machine.
> If you don't use ntpd, consider doing so.  Otherwise, at least use
> ntpdate once to set your clock to something sane.

I hadn't yet started ntpd but

[root@maxwell /etc]# ntpdate newton
19 May 13:29:22 ntpdate[55524]: step time server 192.168.0.8 offset -1.044724 sec

I doubt that a second off would make any difference.




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