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List:       webmin-l
Subject:    Re: [webmin-l] Time Set schedule problem
From:       Jamie Cameron <jcameron () webmin ! com>
Date:       2004-09-22 23:21:02
Message-ID: 1095895262.25687.41.camel () temasek ! home
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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 23:44, George McCashin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 01:47, George McCashin wrote:
> > > There seems to be some problem with the routine that syncs the clock with a \
> > > >>time server within Webmin.  This is v 1.160 on a RH 7.0 box. 
> [original stuff snipped here]
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, for two nights in a row, at the time the sync should have \
> > > >>happened, the clock ended up being set to Dec. 13, 1901.  Of course this \
> > > > > >>seems to confuse quite a few things that use or relate to the system \
> > > > > > > time.
> > > 
> > > I've disabled it for now and put the time sync back as it was before. 
> > 
> > Does the server you are syncing from run an NTP server?
> > 
> > By default, Webmin will use the command  ntpdate -u the.other.server  to
> > get the time, or if that fails it will connect to port 37 and fetch the
> > time using the 'time' protocol. I suspect that one of those two methods
> > is reporting the wrong time on your master server ..
> > 
> I guess I'm not really sure about this, but I should have noted originally that \
> this was using time-b.nist.gov which is what I'm also using for the rdate set.

You might want to try installing the ntpdate command, which Webmin uses
if available, and which is more reliable than rdate ..

 - Jamie




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