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Article #46Re: Moving back the system clock
From: Richard Elling
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:14
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:14
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In article 4Ex@visix.com, ken@visix.com (Ken Mayer) writes: >Changing the system clock on networked systems is getting harder and >hadrder to do without seriously impacting users. (I suppose if NTP or >some other protocol and internetwork connectivity kepp going, you >system could just check (trusted) NTP time servers for the real time.) >E-mail gets confused, developement operations with make and rcs are >similarly obfuscated. Yes, but one could change the time for a process and all of it's children. Conceivably, nearly every process could have its own concept of time. So one could change the time for the app, but not affect other system operations. Once again, we're back to trusting customers. --- Richard Elling Manager of Network Support Auburn University Engineering Administration richard.elling@eng.auburn.edu KB4HB [44.100.0.72] (205)844-2280
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Newsgroups: comp.software.licensing Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.duc.auburn.edu!netman!elling From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling) Subject: Re: Moving back the system clock Message-ID: <1992Oct10.001455.13794@news.duc.auburn.edu> Sender: usenet@news.duc.auburn.edu (News Account) Nntp-Posting-Host: netman.eng.auburn.edu Reply-To: elling@eng.auburn.edu Organization: Auburn University Engineering References: <BvtCxM.4Ex@visix.com> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:14:55 GMT Lines: 20