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 4.54) id 1F8qwJ-0003Ib-9x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:33:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1E3Veq1023566; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:31:40 GMT Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.164]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1E3PKdR027332 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:25:20 GMT Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (70-97-209-135.dsl2.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [70.97.209.135]) by relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA9E3643E8 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:25:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (unknown [192.168.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 109091648C7 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:25:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43F14D9E.6060506@mykitchentable.net> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:25:18 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems References: <43EF962C.6030507@mykitchentable.net> <20060214100805.CB57.NICK@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060214100805.CB57.NICK@rout.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.3.2 (20050629) at filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net X-Archives-Salt: d3e76fcb-6d51-421e-84a1-21998f92cc92 X-Archives-Hash: c937261b1cedb5ec177df8ca845f43c5 On 2/13/2006 1:11 PM Nick Rout wrote: > If your system stopped suddenly the ntp.drfit file may have become corrupted. As I understand it this file has a value in it that tells the system how much drift there is in the system clock, and uses the figutre to compensate. If the figure is way out then the compensation will be way out. > > Take a look at /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift, if its seems like a large figure, then zero it and start again from scratch. ie stop ntpd, set the clock with ntpdate, then start the ntpd service again (preferably not while recording with mythtv LOL). > I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried "touch"ing it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. I'm by no means an expert but I don't get it. Thanks for your reply, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list