[ILUG] APM & NTP

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:

>  Wierdness. My messages file is full of:
> 
> Jun  7 09:45:38 xena apmd[381]: System Standby
> Jun  7 09:45:41 xena apmd[381]: Standby Resume after 00:00:03 (-1% unknown) AC power
> 

what hardware is xena? and does it dualboot windows?

>  It looks like powersaving is trying to kick in, and then the system
> gets confused or something, and starts up. Though I'm running xntpd,
> every morning when I come in, the machine is an hour fast

exactly one hour?

> (in the logs, it mentions that the time is skipping by an hour, and
> the descrepancy is too large to change). I think it's somehow related.
> 

is your hardware clock set to GMT?

>  And what's char-major-5, that modprobe is giving out about ? Seems like
> it's supposed to be the console, but...
> 
> Kate
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