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Re: [SLE] realtime clock probs-solved ...
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 08:25:51 +0200
- Message-id: <200405040825.51983.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 08.16, Sid Boyce wrote:
> I haven't been following this thread closely and assuming xntp is being
> used to synchronise the clocks. I've installed a new motherboard and I
> am seeing clock drift possibly because of a low battery, though ACPI is
> not reporting anything. I've had to edit crontab "crontab -e -u root"
> and insert the following line to keep my clock synched.
> * * * * * /usr/sbin/ntptimeset -S 1 -s >/dev/null 2>&1
That runs once a minute. Is it really as bad as that? That can't be good. How
much does a CMOS battery cost these days?
> I haven't been following this thread closely and assuming xntp is being
> used to synchronise the clocks. I've installed a new motherboard and I
> am seeing clock drift possibly because of a low battery, though ACPI is
> not reporting anything. I've had to edit crontab "crontab -e -u root"
> and insert the following line to keep my clock synched.
> * * * * * /usr/sbin/ntptimeset -S 1 -s >/dev/null 2>&1
That runs once a minute. Is it really as bad as that? That can't be good. How
much does a CMOS battery cost these days?
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