Ron,
although 3 minutes a day seems extreme, I don't think it's way out of
the ordinary either. After reading the manual, they state that adjtimex is
more elegant, but I also think it would take a long time to get it to be
accurate though. What I mean is that you would have to do a long time study
to understand the amount of drift you have, make an adjustment ( or an
adjustment to the adjustment) and start again, except with an even longer
time period. Ntp is more expedient, and at multiple times a day, with an
open connection, no pain.
dg
On 2/16/02 8:23 PM, "Ron McCall"
Dave,
Thanks for those pointers. I realize now that I misunderstood the hwclock man page and thought the only way for the adjustments to take effect was manually (or via a cron job or equivalent). That didn't seem much better than NTP to me at the time so I went ahead and set up xntpd instead (fortunately, my DSL connection is up 24/7 so I can run this without any pain and suffering). NTP is working well so far but I still can't get over the feeling that something else is wrong and this is just a hack. I couldn't find any SuSE RPMS for adjtimex but it looks like every other PPC distribution has one. I guess I should look into that option more in case it is a little cleaner.
Thanks again, Ron