F8 & F9: Date & Time
Daniel B. Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Mon Aug 4 19:20:16 UTC 2008
Todd Denniston wrote:
>
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote, On 08/01/2008 09:28 PM:
> > Jeremy wrote:
> >> Hello Dan,
> >>
> >> Do you have the ntp daemon installed? If so check your /etc/ntp.conf
> >> file. Also check if the ntp daemon is running (system - administartion
> >> - services).
> >>
> >> Jeremy
> > Uh oh, top posting? ;)
> >
> > Yes, ntp is running and is properly, I believe. It snaps in
> > once I get the time setting close enough. Somehow time
> > is off anywhere from 2-8 hours in the past or in the future
> > after a reboot.
>
> A) are you dual booting with windows or any other OS/distribution (even
> another instance of Fedora)?
> {perhaps the other OS thinks the hardware clock is/[is not] on UTC.}
>
Yes, w2kPro, XP, Vista, f8, and f9
>
> B) what are the contents of /etc/adjtime and /etc/sysconfig/clock?
> {repeat this question for each instance of Fedora|Unix installed
> on the
> machine.}
>
# cat /etc/adjtime
0.568903 1217870667 0.000000
1217870667
LOCAL
cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
# The ZONE parameter is only evaluated by system-config-date.
# The time zone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime.
ZONE="America/Los Angeles"
> C) it seems strange that the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd is not syncing the
> clock
> before kicking off ntpd.
> you may need to add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/ntpd
> dostep=yes
>
> D) have you tried adding '-g' to OPTIONS=... in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd ?
>
Ok, added the above. I will follow up on results soon.
>
>
> E) are you using a static IP or dynamic?
> on a wired network or wireless?
> {Network manager (the default now) works well on wireless dynamic IP
> networks, but from what has been said on this list, if you are on a wired
> network using static IP's then it is best to `chkconfig NetworkManager
> off`,
> `chkconfig network on`. if you are on static wireless or dynamic
> wired, it is
> a tossup as to which is best to use. NM has been set to come up
> AFTER many
> of the services that REQUIRE networking.}
>
1. Static IP
2. NetManager is disabled
3. network service is enabled.
I have always done it this way due to having static ip addresses.
Note: I did not have a date problem (that I was aware of) until very
recently
and I ran all three (w2kPro, XP, f8) w/ no problems for a
"long" time.
It wasn't until I added in Vista and f9 when I noticed it. I
ran updates
on all OS's so it is hard to tell where the culprit
originated. I also, in
addition to the time/date problem started noticing that on
boot up for f9
ONLY, a forced fsck fix ensued because the time/date was "in
the future"
(or so f9 believes) and this continues even now, and then
the sendmail/dovecot
group-writable issue cropped up, stating with f9, then later
with f8.
Very strange.
Dan
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