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 4.43) id 1EA70b-0000Hh-CW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:22:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UEIgC4024624; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:18:42 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UEEsKj001445 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:14:55 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b2so238556nfe for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:17:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AEJEq52JsyzWMjmQ0EnpwKMGB8yEiV0AUfQvUwErKhd4cL5fQJB31/ZDP/aJmR3gFgZrc6GrF7oIvkK+h9XYNiR5BmQWL/N8KxO5P5nRVFoYoAJad9G7jk3PT2u1F7PsK8ODwm9vHcmj3bu+aW0OQHbJwDfMQpev/AnvP51N8nQ= Received: by 10.48.250.16 with SMTP id x16mr184964nfh; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.144.9 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:17:01 +0100 From: Stuart Howard To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere 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-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7UEEsKj001445 X-Archives-Salt: b2824f7a-84c6-4d47-bf84-1963c911b47c X-Archives-Hash: bc10f677169f1df54918a77d7ea9ef0f thanks for the response So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean ought not to have removed it as it should "belong" to something [world , system ] I may give up on chrony and put a ntp on and see if that cures it, though I prefer not to just mask a problem if there is one, could a clock slowdown be something as serious as an indication of hardware problems? stu On 8/30/05, A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > - I tried to install "chrony" to adjust the time, though it seems to > > be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time, > > could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost > > something that checks or sync's the system time? > > - As I wrote last question I realised that I did my first "emerge -av > > --depclean" a few days ago is it possible that I have removed some app > > that keeps a check on system time? > > Maybe you had ntp installed? > > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list