Hi,
my name is Geir, I'm an Icelander living in Ipswich and this is my first email to this user group.
Welcome!
I'm running Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10, on and old Compaq pentium III machine.
My problem is that the system clock is running at approx 2x the speed it should be running on. The hardware clock is ok.
That sounds quite odd...
Solutions that don't seem to work:
- adjtimex
- ntpd
- booting without apm or acpi
My preference would be ntp.
ntpd doesn't seem to cope either, if I'm running it correctly. It doesn't seem to do anything at all. How do I adjust the frequency of ntpd updates anyway? Some command in the /etc/ntp.conf I guess?
One way of doing it (probably not the most elegant way) would be to cron it. Then you can choose the update frequency yourself and be sure that it works. Here is an example that runs on my work machine:
# cron to sync the time every 1/2 hour 15,45 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org > /dev/null 2>&1
Hope that helps.
Dave