I successfully used clockspeed on a Redhat 6 system 2 years ago
to correct a terribly drifting clock. It did a *perfect* job.
Now I am trying to use it to correct a clock that speeds up
about 1 sec. per hour, this on a Gentoo Linux / amd64 box,
and it does not work for me.
Here's a log of what I did, following the INSTALL.gz:
# DIARY of of the clockspeed tunning process:
# YD, 2005-11-28:
# (#4) Tunned the clock via
# sntpclock `sntphost.sh` | clockadd
# (#5) Then gave it a time measurement
# sntpclock `sntphost.sh` > /var/lib/clockspeed/adjust &
#
# YD, 2005-11-30:
# (#6) second time measurement given via
# sntpclock `sntphost.sh` > /var/lib/clockspeed/adjust &
#
# YD, 2005-12-06: bad, clock drifting is now
# before: 2005-12-06 07:51:29.438417000000000000
# after: 2005-12-06 07:51:15.661924499920696019
(sntphost.sh simply returns one IP of a near-by sntp server.)
I am absolutely ignorant about any details of how clockspeed
works, so forgive me any stupidity.
What I can add to the above report: trying to access the atto file
fails, as it simply does not exist. The /var/lib/clockspeed/ looks
this way:
dedi root # ls -la /var/lib/clockspeed/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 38 Nov 28 09:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 30 10:28 ..
prw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 30 12:01 adjust
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Feb 17 2005 leapsecs.dat
I would greatly appreciate any help -- thank you!
Yassen Damyanov
Troyer Information Systems
