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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:28:39 -0600
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: some machines won't run xntpd 
Message-ID:  <200008202328.e7KNSdj01383@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000821010534.02f2af00@mail.Go2France.com> 

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:07:44 +0200  Len Conrad wrote:
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 | 
 | >On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:54:23 +0200  Len Conrad wrote:
 | >  +------------------
 | >  | On these two machines, the ntpd won't unloads (can't see it "ps aux |
 | >  | grep ntp").
 | >  |
 | >  | What's going on?
 | >  +------------------
 | >
 | >Also it could have something to do with CMOS clock setting
 | 
 | something like what, if CMOS was totally wrong or dead battery?
 | 
 | >and the existance or absence of /etc/wall_cmos_clock.
 | 
 | what's wall_cmos_clock ?
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I don't what to quote the manual at you. /etc/wall_cmos_clock is discussed
in the adjkerntz(8) manual page.  It helps the kernel figure out if the
CMOS clock is set to local time or UTC.  Another thought I had after
posting is to check that /etc/localtime is correct.

chris

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