Linux clock too fast

[Jack Fan]

Dear All,
I had installed a Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
But the clock too fast than current time even I have adjust the system clock.
What's wrong? And How can I do?

Thanks,

Jack Fan

[Steven E. Protter]

If on the internet, you can get accurate time with ntp.

Her is a configuration file with a sample connection to a time source.

from /etc/ntp.conf

server 140.221.8.88 # local clock
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

#
# Drift file. Put this in a directory which the daemon can write to.
# No symbolic links allowed, either, since the daemon updates the file
# by creating a temporary in the same directory and then rename()'ing
# it to the file.
#
driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
#multicastclient # listen on default 224.0.1.1
broadcastdelay 0.008


service ntpd start

service ntpd stop (to stop)

service nptd restart

You can install ntpd if its missing fromt he original cd's

To check, on red hat rpm -q ntpd

SEP

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

To set the system clock:
# date --set='2003mar21 22:51'

To set the hardware clock:
# hwclock --utc --systohc

Make sure the timezone is correct and you should be all set at the next reboot.
Regards,
Sergejs