[TriLUG] A clock problem

[Owen Berry]

Gentoo recently changed some things related to ntpd. There are now two
separate services: ntpd and ntp-client. ntpd starts up the usual daemon
that runs in the background and keeps your time in sync continuously.
ntp-client does a one time sync, at bootup. Maybe the change has caused
ntp to not work correctly on your system anymore?

I think the location of the configuration files has also changed
recently: /etc/conf.d/ntpd and /etc/conf.d/ntp-client.

You could also try searching on the Gentoo forums to see if anyone else
has similar problems.

-- Owen

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:34:21PM +0000, Randall Barlow wrote:
> Michael Tharp wrote:
> 
> > /etc/conf.d/clock should do it, just comment out the rc.conf definition.
> 
> OK, so now the clock doesn't change itself to random times anymore, but
> I've been noticing that the clock is now drifting away from the correct
> time slowly.  Before, when I had the clock set to "local" in rc.conf,
> the clock would be updated by ntpd just fine upon booting.  Now, it
> doesn't seem that ntpd is updating the clock.  Anyone know how to fix
> this?  (Gentoo...)
> 
> Thanks,
> Randy Barlow
>