Re: Drifting clock

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From: Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:36

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In article <1992Nov10.021255.8585@cs.brown.edu> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C. Antony) writes:

???   I realize that my clock on the NeXT keeps running late. So finally got
???   annoyed enough to try to fix the problem. In the man pages I found a 
???   reference to /etc/npt.drift
???   However the file format is not documented. Does anyone know if this
???   file can be helpful in getting rid of the problem? If yes, what do the
???   entries in the file mean?

If your machine is on a network and you know an ntp (or xntp) host at
Brown, and if your machine is running ntp (check you /etc/hostconfig
file), ntp.drift records the drift of your clock vis-a-vis the master
clock. ntp is adjusting the logical time. 
We have three servers on campus, and if I want to reset the physical
clock I issue the command (as root):
ntp -f -s -v draco.acs.uci.edu einstein.oac.uci.edu paris.ics.uci.edu
(see the man-page on ntp). 









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