Re: hardware clock tweaking

From: Jim Showalter (highpriest_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:23:33 GMT

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:37:27 +0200, J.O. Aho wrote:

> Jim Showalter wrote:
>> A friend using kubuntu says his clock is gaining like 5 mins. a day. I
>> recall seeing a utility to fine tune the system hardware clock on older
>> distro's of RedHat, but never had occasion to use it.
>>
>> I'm currently running SuSE and my clock is fine. Does anyone know the
>> name of that utility or have other suggestions for my friend?
>>
>> jim
>
> Best tool to keep a clock keep it's time is most likely NTP
>
> http://cfm.gs.washington.edu/network/ntp/ntp
>
>
> //Aho

Thanks, Aho. My friend has been using NTP, but he has to do it so
frequently, it's causing problems. I now remember the name of the utility
- it's adjtimex. He's going to try that.

Thanks again
jim 

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