Re: question about ntp

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From: Dan Danz
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:47

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Operator writes
> I want to know if there is an easy way to add a line to the crontab
> file so that at (say) 2am every night, my machine (at home) slips into
> the local network, and resets the system clock... I want to do
> this because the clock slips badly here (I don't know about other places)

From the /usr/adm/daily file for my home system:

# synchronize the time with time server in the office
/usr/ucb/logger -p local3.info -t daily Beginning
/usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slip0 bringup
sleep 60
/usr/etc/ntp -s timehost

For the uninitiated, you can't just run the ntp daemon on your local machine
because it will forever be bringing up the dialup SLIP line.   So you have to  
put up with some inaccuracy.

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From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
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Subject: Re: question about ntp
Date: 30 Dec 1992 03:47:30 GMT
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