[ILUG] APM & NTP

[lbedford at wbtsystems.com]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:17:27AM +0100, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:04:45AM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> > >  Wierdness. My messages file is full of:
> > > Jun  7 09:45:38 xena apmd[381]: System Standby
> > > Jun  7 09:45:41 xena apmd[381]: Standby Resume after 00:00:03 (-1% unknown) AC power
> > what hardware is xena? and does it dualboot windows?
> 
>  <thinks> Yes, it has in the past. It's my PIII desktop in work.
> 
> > >  It looks like powersaving is trying to kick in, and then the system
> > > gets confused or something, and starts up. Though I'm running xntpd,
> > > every morning when I come in, the machine is an hour fast
> > exactly one hour?
> 
>  Pretty much.
> 
> > > (in the logs, it mentions that the time is skipping by an hour, and
> > > the descrepancy is too large to change). I think it's somehow related.
> > is your hardware clock set to GMT?
> 
>  Yeah, but what's that got to do with the price of turnips. The machine
> hasn't been rebooted in (checkes) 21 days. Why should the clock skip
> forward an hour, to resync with the hardware clock ?
> 
>  I'm fairly sure I could fix it, if I could get xntpd to change the
> hardware clock too, but I don't see such an option in the docs...

Run hwclock --utc --systohc when it boots, then the hardware clock
will be right.. wonder if it's possible to run a program when it syncs?

L.
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