Re: [webmin-l] System Time Timeserver

[Mathew S. <Mat...@en...>]

Hi,

Yeah syncing every minute was excessive but I was just doing it for testing. But I did just try what you had mentioned, i.e. 'selecting minute 0, and choosing "All" for the hours, days, months and weekdays'. Except in my case I chose the '20' minute since it was close, but still when the time minute hit '20' (and I waited for both the System Time and Hardware Time to hit it), no syncing occurred (or at least the System Time and Hardware Time were still out of sync with each other).

Just a few questions:
- when the "synchronize on schedule" time is hit does the time from the timeserver get synced with the System Time and the Hardware Time if the "Set hardware time too" is checked?
- what files are these settings stored in? All in /etc/webmin/time/config?
- what script is run when "Sync and Apply" is clicked? /etc/webmin/time/config/sync.pl? Is this the same script that is run when the system automatically syncs according to the schedule?

Anyways, just appears that I can't get the time to sync up with the timeserver when I count on the schedule. However manually when I click "Sync and Apply" it is fine.

Yes using Linux RHEL 5.6. And I'm dealing with a customer so I'm a bit limited with respect to what I can do for them in the short-term.

So the following as suggested by others:
- install the ntp service
- configure ntpd properly

Are all good long term solutions but it's bit more difficult to apply this in the short term.

Cheers,
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Cameron [mailto:jca...@we...] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:24 PM
To: Webmin users list
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] System Time Timeserver

On 21/Feb/2012 13:13 Mathew Samuel <Mat...@en...> wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to configure a time server on the System Time module 
> (Webmin 1.530) and I've also enabled the "Set hardware time too" 
> checkbox. When I click "Sync and Apply" both the System Time and the 
> Hardware Time sync up presumably to the timeserver host that I had configured.
> 
> However I am having trouble with the "Synchronize on Schedule" 
> configuration. Specifically I select both "Yes, at times below" and 
> "Times and dates selected below" and then I select them all. So every 
> minute, hour, day, month is selected. So then I would think that it 
> would Sync up with the timeserver every minute. I realize this is 
> overkill, or should be overkill, but I was just doing this as a test. 
> It doesn't seem to be syncing up every minute. Actually, it doesn't 
> seem to be syncing up automatically at all (although I have only been 
> watching for a few minutes). However if I manually click the "Sync and Apply" button then the times do sync up with the timeserver.
> 
> Not sure if I am doing something incorrect with regards to configuring 
> the Sync to occur automatically?

Syncing every minute seems excessive ... I would suggest instead selecting minute 0, and choosing "All" for the hours, days, months and weekdays.

 - Jamie

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