system clock lagging?

[Kelly Prescott]

install ntp and then run a ntpserver to keep your clock on-time or use 
ntpdate every 5 minutes from crontab.
see docs in package.
kp


On Sun, 22 May 2005, Igor Gueths wrote:

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> Hi all. I'm noticing that my system clock begins to severely lag behind the hardware clock after a time, in some cases it ranges up to 5 minutes. I'm not exactly sure when this started
> happening, however its quite annoying to have to run hwclock --hctosys every 5 mins or so. I am currently using Kernel-2.6.11.7. Does anyone know why this happens/how I might better be able to
> keep the 2 clocks synchronized? Thanks!
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