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Re: Sync'ing clocks

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From: James Petts
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:56
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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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