"Brian L. Johnson" wrote: > On Jun 11, the keyboard of Alan Grimes emitted this: > > >I am using the internet from my simple and plesant 486 through a lan > >running to my evil and demented Athlon running leenooks. THE LINUX > >MACHINE CAN'T EVEN KEEP THE CORRECT TIME OF DAY!!!! I have to reset it > >every day and it takes several attempts to get the correct time to > >"stick". > > That sounds like a hardware problem.. Linux is subject to the > limitations of the hardware upon which it runs, and I bet that > computer wouldn't keep any better time under DOS either. :) Correct. I had this similiar problem due to nonY2K fashioned BIOS. This helped: - Set system clock to actual date & time, using 'timetool' or the 'clock',e.g 'hwclock' command. - Do a hwclock --adjust at the shell prompt. this could already help in your case, because it creates an 'adjust' file which does a regular system clock update for you by evaluating time differences in the system. Then, if after reboot, it still doesn't keep time/date, put these lines into the file /etc/rc.local hwclock --hctosys --badyear hwclock --systohc --badyear hwclock --systohc --localtime Reboot the machine & see it keeping time ok then. -- To unsubscribe, send a message to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe calmira_tips" in the body. OR visit http://freelists.org