[CS-FSLUG] timestamp, was Re: Fw: GM vs Microsoft

[Alan Trick]

In Gentoo, if there's not network available, and it thinks there is, it
will timeout (for something like 15 or 30 seconds) This has the effect
of causing everything to pause because sysvinit doesn't do things
asyncronosly (initng does though, it's very cool).

I don't know what the timeout is set for in SUSE, or where the init
config files are.

Alan Trick

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 11:07 -0400, Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:
> Ubuntu does that, without freezing and changes time according to
> daylight savings time also. Gentoo didn't have any trouble with that
> when I was using it regularly either. :-)
> 
> You're looking for NTP stuff. I don't know how SUSE handles it. I think
> ntpdate is the name of one of those programs that I used on Gentoo.
> 
> JSR/
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz [mailto:Christiansource-
> > bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Yama Ploskonka
> > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 9:49 AM
> > To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
> > Subject: [CS-FSLUG] timestamp, was Re: Fw: GM vs Microsoft
> > 
> > On my first Linux attempt I used fedora core 4 and it had a nifty
> > arrangement that it would pick up the right time from some server
> > somewhere (that was fine as long as the network was up - if it wasn't,
> > it would freeze).
> > 
> > Do you know how to set something like that on SuSE 10?  My clock keeps
> > missing a couple minutes per day - it's annoying.  It would be a plus
> if
> > it were clever enough to go to sleep if the server were not available.
> > 
> > BTW, these clock woes remind us that we are, somewhat like Windows,
> far
> > from free from buggy behavior.  It's a bit like that story about who
> is
> > to cast the first stone.  My Windows box set daylight saving time by
> > itself a few days ago - had to do that manually in my Suse.
> > 
> > Yama
> > 
> > 
> > >>> I think your clock is off on your machine as I replied to your
> message
> > >>> 51 minutes before you sent it.
> > >> That is really weird.
> > 
> > >> I played with a variety of settings and didn't
> > >> see where the E-Mail app is getting the wrong
> > >> time setting.
> > >>
> > >> Sigh ... will have to wait until after I get
> > 
> > > I am not sure if this is helpful, but I had the similar problem some
> > > weeks ago (computer clock seemed to be right, but email time-stamps
> > > went wrong) - it turned out that my computer clock was set to right
> > > time but the timezone setting was not.
> > 
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