[SWLUG] System clock loosing time

[pbhj]

Just remember that there may be ntp exploits around ... for the paranoid 
amongst us less ports (ntp=123?) in use always seems more attractive.

However ntp 4.0 appears to us crypto which should help.

'course the FBI can crack that with their Crays  :0)>


Julian Hall wrote:

> Neil Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> The system clock on my desktop has been loosing time for a while but 
>> it has recently become ridicululous. I corrected it on Sunday and 
>> today It is still showing sunday's date!
>>
>> Is this a cmos battery problem or something?
>> Everything else seems to work fine.
>>
>> Is there some way of synchonising the computer to a time source on 
>> the net?
>>
> Hi Neil,
>
> Probably a dicky battery.  However if you have webmin installed, one 
> of the options is to synchronise with a remote time server on boot.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Julian
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