[ale] apcupsd

[Scott Castaline]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:44 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>   
>> /etc/defaults/apcupsd is there
>>     
>
> Check the contents of that file to see if there are some settings that
> need to be enabled in order to start the daemon.  Also, check for any
> errors in syslog?
>
> WRT to the clock being off by 3 hours, this can occur if your CMOS
> battery is low or if the hardware clock is set wrong.  Update your
> systems' date, then open a terminal and run "hwclock --systohc".
>
>
> -Jim P.
>
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I have also found that ntpd can be a little flaky. I used to kepp my 
CMOS clock set to local time and it was flaky as far as accuracy. When I 
allowed it to be set to UTC the problems seemed to go away. I found this 
to be true with Ubuntu and Fedora both FC6 & F7. However, if you're dual 
booting M$ Winblowz, then you have to set it to local as Winblowz won't 
work right. I seem to remeber that this held true with all flavors of 
UNIX as we would set the clocks of servers and workstations to UTC and 
the software to the local timezone when using ntpd.