On 11/05/12 11:01, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 11/05/12 09:57, Mark Rogers wrote:
What could cause this? The only thing kicking the script off is cron.
(It's running Debian Wheezy on ARM.)
OK, I'm closer to an idea of what's going on: the system clock is jumping around all over the place.
What's the best way to install an ntp client on Debian? I did "apt-get install ntp" a couple of days ago because my clock was wrong, but haven't done more than that in terms of configuration. But it seems to be ntp that is causing the clock to jump.
[snip log]
"This is Ground control to Major Cron. Can you hear me now? Is there something wrong?"
Not an expert, but have you looked at /etc/ntp.conf?
I have several time servers listed in mine. Perhaps you don't?
I have lines saying: server ntp.ubuntu.com server ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk server ntp2b.mcc.ac.uk server ntp.maths.tcd.ie server ntp2.ja.net
There may be sufficient comments in your conf file to show how to configure it, or find out where to configure it.
HTH Steve