On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:41 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > On 10/8/06, David G. Miller <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > correct the reported time to prevent discontinuities. It should not > > have changed the time by 23 minutes over only a few hours. You may have > > something else going on. > > Something else is going on, /var/log/messages contains lots of these: > Oct 8 10:43:19 localhost ntpd[2481]: sendto(130.123.2.98) (fd=21): > Invalid argument > > which I tracked down to an old bug in ntpd going back at least one > year where ntpd needs to be restarted when ever the network interface > connection changes. I don't understand why this is now a problem when > it wasn't a problem last week, well other than the update from fc5 to > fc6 of course :-) Mine blew up sometime ago, and I just shut it off. Guess it's still not fixed. I'm only 15 minutes ahead on system time, but the date is correct. Life is good, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
