[Klug-general] Clock problems

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On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:13, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> Hi,
>   If anyone can give me a sane solution that works I'll be grateful, my
> clock drifts, by about an hour every 3 days. always running slow. I've
> just had a tinker and I've got this...
>
> [root at downtime root]# hwclock
> Sat 12 Feb 2005 07:56:18 GMT  -0.876199 seconds
> [root at downtime root]# date
> Sat Feb 12 11:26:06 GMT 2005
> [root at downtime root]# /etc/init.d/ntpd restart
> Shutting down ntpd:                                        [  OK  ]
> ntpd: Synchronizing with time server:                      [  OK  ]
> Starting ntpd:                                             [  OK  ]
> [root at downtime root]# date
> Sat Feb 12 12:07:08 GMT 2005
> [root at downtime root]# hwclock --adjust
> [root at downtime root]# hwclock
> Sat 12 Feb 2005 06:40:21 GMT  -0.634776 seconds
>
> Its a gigabyte motherboard and a 2.4Ghz p4 HT, I've got HPET,smp,ht on
> in the kernel and would like to resolve this without rebooting if
> possible.
>
> Thanks
> Karl,
>
>
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Karl,
you could try making a cron to restart your ntp daemon every day

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