Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suselist@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:42, nick murphy wrote:
> Dylan wrote:
> 
> >On Friday 14 November 2003 15:28 pm, nick murphy wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I have been having problems with the system clock in Kpanel since
> >>upgrading to 9.0. It is also a problem on a fresh install. The time
> >>seems rather erratic, always wrong. It can be just a few minutes out or
> >>way out every time I turn the computer on. I have tried it out on the
> >>two different settings UTC and local time but it doesn't seem to make
> >>any difference. This has never been a problem before.
> >>
> >>Any ideas??
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Are you dualbooting with Win?
> >
> >Does the bios battery need replacing?
> >
> >Dylan
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Nick
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> I have started xntpd but nothing changed with the time. Do you have to 
> reboot? No I am not dual booting on my home work station but am on my 
> laptop - have to for work :(. Does that make a difference to xntpd 
> functionality?
> 
> Once started does the network time demon start up on each boot or should 
> a put it in one of the startup files?
> 
> Nick

You also need to setup the time servers in the /etc/ntp.conf as well.

-- 
Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)