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hwclock --show says 10:23 NZST

it's lost 20 mins since I set the time!

ntpdate says socket is being used

Debian comes with ntpdate-debian that uses ntpdate 0.debian.pool.ntp.org 
 (for the (first) server arg)

How does one set the time from bash ?

date

I used tzselect to reset the timezone, but the time is still wrong.

After the tzselect was there an ntpdate or hwclock --hctosys executed?

no

hwclock --hctosys is not setting the time correctly now

Off by how many hours?

hwclock --utc  (if hardware is utc) or hwclock --localtime  can effect 
things.

20 mins

I used date to set the time correctly .. now going to wait 20 mins 
and see what happens

Write a little script like   forever [print now/exact wait 00:05:00] 
 and log it or just monitor

/exact = /precise sorry.

already lost 2 mins :(

Battery failing...?  Something not right in the system clock ticker?

Or is it just the fedora image?

must be a vmware bug

because the actual hardware clock is correct.

and it's just fedora core 6 image that is doing this.

Something might be eating interrupts...you know to ...help

well, the only thing I have running is uniserve, and the imap server

cheyenne

perhaps I should run a script that fixes the date every minute!

Heehee...if you can't beat 'em

now where is the ntp protocol ?

A google of   fedora time drift vmware  shows a lot of info

Debian I just executed  apt-get install ntp  and then forgot about 
it.

crontab ntpdate !

looks like this is a common problem

Yep.

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_43_9259.shtm

seems it may be a config issue

Good luck.

thanks!

Looks like I have to install gcc ...

crap .. now it can't resolve dependencies to install gcc.

Does Fedora use rpm?

use ... I think I need to click on the fc6 specific gcc package

To get all the dependencies (I don't use rpm - mistakes maybe)

$ rpm -q --qf \ 

 "[%{REQUIRENAME} %{REQUIREFLAGS:depflags} %{REQUIREVERSION}\n]" gcc

Now the installer wants the c header files for my kernel.  How do 
ordinary guys cope with this ??

With lots of coffee

Windows certainly does have advantages

Kernel rebuilds are great...you'll be able to puff out your chest 
when you are done.   But.  have you scoured google and the vmware 
site for patches?  My first kernel rebuild was an all nighter.

not yet .. i'm just running the vmware-tools-config.pl script

and responding to what it needs.

it needs gcc, now installed.

now it needs kernel headers .. looking for those to install.