Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 08:52:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: dk+@ua.net Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procedure to adjust clock drift? Message-ID: <199712241354.IAA04331@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <199712240726.XAA07267@dog.farm.org>
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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: > In article <199712232054.NAA24318@harmony.village.org> you wrote: > > In message <199712231738.JAA01502@rah.star-gate.com> Amancio Hasty writes: > > : Does anyone have a procedure to adjust the clock drift in a PC? > > > ntp? > > > It is already in the tree as xntpd and friends... > > of course; the problem with PCs is that they, unlike, say, sparcs, > can gain few seconds in a day... > I have an SGI Challenge S that just started losing about 40 minutes a day about a week ago. It's not just a PC problem, though PC clocks tend suck in general. My SGI's are highly reliable with that one exception, and that one worries me, but hey, that's what backups are for. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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