From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fpq3G-0003xt-CM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:18:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5CHErE9018376; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:14:53 GMT Received: from engine11.iway.na (engine11.iway.na [196.44.136.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5CH3Wuj004440 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:03:37 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na ([196.44.136.13]) by engine11.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id J0R8BO00.19H for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:57:25 +0100 Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242C67AD23 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:25:59 +0100 (WAT) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.146]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id J0R6V902.064 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:25:57 +0100 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FpoHY-0000bH-Uk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:24:48 +0100 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:24:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606121624.48824.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: f5d44d52-a16a-4587-9181-24709ec4d7fe X-Archives-Hash: fcae3747316baa087d8b0b0ca96fde45 On 12 June 2006 15:32, John J. Foster wrote: > Good morning all, > > About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our > electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused > my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been > lost. After setting what I could remember (no, I didn't have them written > down), I brought Gentoo back up. Massive complaints about the time being > off (I had forgotten to set the hardware clock). > > # /etc/init.d/ntpd stop > followed by > # ntpdate pool.ntp.org after this: hwclock -wu to get your hardware clock right. Without "u" if your hw clock is running in local time. > set the system time correctly. So I > #/etc/init.d/ntpd start > > Since then, ntpd does not work. > According to ps, ntpd is running > > //garbanzo/etc # ps aux|grep ntp > root 19874 0.0 0.3 3656 3656 ? SLs 09:05 0:00 > /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid > > But all that shows in the /var/log/ntp.log is > 12 Jun 09:05:46 ntpd[19515]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 It probably terminated right after your "ps". Would be interesting to know why it is terminating. Maybe you should run ntpd in the foreground once: ntpd -n Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list