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- From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
- Subject: Re: Date incorrect after reboot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.090347.14794@fys.ruu.nl>
- Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- References: <1993Jan5.215635.6062@odin.corp.sgi.com> <20315005@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <1993Jan6.092134.22@sfpp.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:03:47 GMT
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- In <1993Jan6.092134.22@sfpp.com> longo@sfpp.com (Bob Longo) writes:
-
- >Yeah... My VAX systems NEVER crash, so why bother? ;-)
-
- >Seriously - you are correct that SHUTDOWN.COM does the SET TIME, but systems
- >do occasionally crash, lose power, etc. Issuing the SET TIME shortly after
- >midnight after the new year change covers you in case of such a disaster.
-
- Just make sure you have a cluster: good LAVC practice is to
- synchronize the clocks every once in a while: I think SET TIME/CLUSTER
- will also take care of the problem?
-
- And: NO: Our VAX systems NEVER crash. Uptimes upto 600 days, causing an
- overflow in the CPU time of the NULL process (Yes: VMS 4.7).
-
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- Rob W.W. Hooft, Department of crystal and structural chemistry
- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht
- The Netherlands ===== hooft@chem.ruu.nl (hooft@hutruu54.bitnet)
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