On Friday 10 May 2002 21:16, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Leendert Meyer (leen.meyer@home.nl) [020510 11:47]:
1. This seems SuSE specific (KDE-2.x)
2. The bug seems to be solved (I recall at least 1 occurrence in KDE-3.0, but I think it was before I've updated my system to the latest packages.
Cristopher, I'm curious about your opinion on this :-)
Sorry, I have no idea what 'kicker' is and have never really used KDE so I'm not going to be much help with this. There doesn't seem to be a man or info page for kicker either...oh my.
Ah, my fault to assume you knew KDE ;-). Kicker is the taskbar and can have (amongst other widgets) a clock applet running. It's a pity you don't know KDE, because KDE's clock changed sometimes, while the kernel clock was ok. BTW, I'm running SuSE Linux 7.3
If kicker is something that changes the kernel time and you are running an ntp client then I don't doubt you'll have lots of time problems since /etc/ntp.drift is going to contain garbage. If you
The clock applet in kicker is AFAIK passive, i.e. it only shows time, and doesn't change it. However the time can be changed _by_the_user_ in KDE's Control Center.
don't need to dual-boot another OS set your hardware clock to GMT, make sure to tell Linux that (/etc/sysconfig/clock:GMT="-u",
Yup, had that already
/sbin/SuSEconfig --quick), and run xntpd making sure to set both /etc/sysconfig/xntp:XNTPD_INITIAL_NTPDATE="ip_of_timeserver" and
filled with 4 ip#'s
(people often forget this part) /etc/ntp.conf:'server ip_of_timeserver'. When you are in /etc/ntp.conf you may also want
have the same 4 public servers there (ip#)
to add 'restrict default ignore' to keep others from changing your clock remotely.
added, thanks
If you do have to dual boot, set the hardware clock to localtime and /etc/sysconfig/clock:GMT="--localtime". The ntp configuration will be identical. If you are using a public timeserver use hostnames instead of IPs and add them /etc/hosts.
Hmm, hostnames instead of ip#, why is that? I don't see the benefit of that. The hostnames could (at some point in time) get different ip#, but those are fixed in /etc/hosts. I would have to change that file. Regards, Leen