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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 199907251431.IAA23111 >Hello everyone, > >Although this isn't a UNIDATA relaed question per se, I hope you can help. >On my main machine, my clock is drifting 3 minutes a day. It's a fairly >new machine; I got it last October. It's running Linux 5.2. I do have a >fairly high load on it, as I make about 21 radar images every 5 minutes. >but that was never a problem before. Any ideas what could be going wrong? > >Gilbert > >****************************************************************************** > * >Gilbert Sebenste ******** >Internet: address@hidden (My opinions only!) ****** >Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** >Work phone: 815-753-5492 *** >****************************************************************************** > * > > Are you running ntp? It should be available on your system. If not running, you should configure your system to use it. See the pre-install LDM checklist for other ntp info. Steve Chiswell