Recommended Timeserver ?

[johnpipe108]

I'm running Vl-5.8, and it always initializes the system time from the hwclock, a bad idea because it's always wrong.  On my other system I installed xntpd, but IIRC there's no package for VL, so it would be a lot of work.  Is there some other timeserver,  package for VL, so I can have the system time set from my ISP timeserver?

Thanks in advance,

Johnpipe

[fox]

Timeserver?  I didn't know that VL sets a clock by a timeserver.  How does one check this in VL?

I'm running it as a virtual machine on my Mac, but every time I freeze and restart the machine, the time is not being reset.  On other distros this doesn't happen, so I'm wondering if no timeserver was installed by default.

[nightflier]

On my 5.8 system I use "ntpdate" and a line in rc.local: "ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org"
The "ntp" package is in VL6 repo, not sure about 5.9 and earlier.

[johnpipe108]

Thanks, ntpdate will work, it isn't installed on 5.8 an I did not know where to find it. I'll look for the ntp package in Gslapt.

[johnpipe108]

Timeserver?  I didn't know that VL sets a clock by a timeserver.  How does one check this in VL?

I'm running it as a virtual machine on my Mac, but every time I freeze and restart the machine, the time is not being reset.  On other distros this doesn't happen, so I'm wondering if no timeserver was installed by default.

VL does not check a timeserver, that's the problem. AFAIK, no version of VL includes a timeserver (not sure if any distro includes one by default). If one is running a network, and wants to keep all the machines on the same time, xntpd server is a good call; IIRC, it has to be built on the system as there's no slackware packages.

[bigpaws]

Slackware includes ntp by default

Bigpaws

[caitlyn]

ntp is in the repo for both VL 5.9 and VL 6.0.

[fox]

I installed ntp, but I hasn't changed anything.  Horage clock in my virtual machine with VL still gives the incorrect time and date.  This is the only distro I've tried that does this, but it's the first one I've tried that is Slackware-based.  I noticed that neither VMware Fusion or VirtualBox specify Slackware options when you first set up the virtual machine.  Perhaps that's the problem?

[lagagnon]

Installing ntp by itself will not set up your system to automatically get some server time. You need to use the method described by nightflier above.

The easier way to do it, and faster than ntp is to install "rdate" from www.linuxpackages.net and then put a command like this in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

rdate -s time.nrc.ca && hwclock --systohc

But first of all just set the correct time using "vasm", maybe that is all you really need to do rather than setting up a time server thing.

[fox]

Thanks for the suggestion, lagagnon.  As it turns out, my time problem righted itself with the latest version of VMware Fusion (2.0.2), which was just posted yesterday.  My VL virtual machine now keeps proper time, and the correct time is shown following the revival of a saved state.