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Article #1238Re: Drifting clock
From: Eric P. Scott
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:18
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:18
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In article <HARDY.92Nov9233637@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: >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. If your machine isn't synchronized to network time (e.g. a standalone "home" machine), you'll need to hook it to the network temporarily so it can "learn" what its natural tendency is. (If NeXT is shipping systems with software preinstalled, why don't they do this as part of burn-in??? Or does it change as the hardware ages?) -=EPS=-
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!csus.edu!news From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Drifting clock Message-ID: <1992Nov10.081846.11087@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1992Nov10.021255.8585@cs.brown.edu> <HARDY.92Nov9233637@golem.ps.uci.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:18:46 GMT Lines: 15