[TriLUG] NTP time offset

[Gregory Woodbury]

"It was written once upon a time (by Jason Tower):"
> 
> i just built a RH8 box and set up the NTP daemon to sync with clock1.unc.edu, 
> but the time that gets set is exactly two hours off (it sets the time to be 
> 9:14:06 when it is actually 11:14:06).  there is no clock adjustment in the 
> bios (it's an older compaq server with that annoying "put the bios files on 
> the hard disk" setup).  and i can't get redhat-config-time to run, it errors 
> out:
> 
> [root at holly root]# redhat-config-time
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/redhat-config-date.py", line 35, in ?
>     mainWindow.mainWindow().stand_alone()
>   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/mainWindow.py", line 181, in __init__
>     self.timezonePage = timezone_gui.timezonePage()
>   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_gui.py", line 50, in __init__
>     self.tz = TimezoneMap(zonetab, self.default, map=path)
>   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_map_gui.py", line 139, in 
> __init__
>     self.setCurrent(self.currentEntry)
>   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_map_gui.py", line 180, in 
> setCurrent
>     self.markers[self.currentEntry.tz].hide()
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'tz'
> 
> any suggestions?

Hmmm!

If redhat-config-date won't run, there is something messed up with the
system setup.  I can run r-c-date (even though it has trouble reading my
ntp.conf ;-) without error so I suspect you might want to re-install the
rpm for r-c-date.


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