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:
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| > | On these two machines, the ntpd won't unloads (can't see it "ps aux |
| > | grep ntp").
| > |
| > | What's going on?
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| >Also it could have something to do with CMOS clock setting
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| something like what, if CMOS was totally wrong or dead battery?
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| >and the existance or absence of /etc/wall_cmos_clock.
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| 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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