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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0400, John Jasen wrote:
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> The NTP people will tell you that running ntpd as a daemon is better for
> your health and promotes good posture.
<G> Maybe I should try it? I slump sometimes . . .
> time, versus the 'one big leap' approach of ntpdate. This can cause
> funny behavior, including daemons to die, when they detect large time
> jumps (dovecot comes to mind). I've also seen 'one big leap' break
> software compiles that were in flight during the leap.
I know not dovecot. And I compile so rarely these days . . .
> it. So, I cooked up very bad things with ntpd -qgx that leapt time,
> restarted dovecot, and tried to fix a few other things.
>
> Of course, then I found the root cause of all my woes!
You started sitting up straighter?
> > (and now actually my call to hwclock fails on my etch machine!)
>
> What happens with you run it manually?
OK, probably you can help! There is a pause of about five
seconds maybe longer, and the following erro message is returned:
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
Erect Alan (sitting, that is!<G>)
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