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- From: James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Sync'ing clocks
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:56:13 GMT
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- In article <C1HBuF.40C@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> Matthew Koebbe,
- phaedrus@alioth.cc.nps.navy.mil writes:
- > The clocks on our SGI workstations (3 Personals and a 380 Power
- Station)
- >are continually drifting. We'd appreciate any input on how to
- automatically
- >sync these things, say, once a day?
-
- The best way to sync clocks on a small network is to use timed(1M). The
- man page for this is quite lucid. You will need to make sure timed is
- turned on using chkconfig. The actual command which turns timed on is in
- /etc/init.d/network, which is executed at boot.
-
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