From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 24 05:52:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA08624 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 05:52:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA08620 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 05:52:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199712241354.IAA04331@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 08:52:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: dk+@ua.net cc: Warner Losh , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procedure to adjust clock drift? In-Reply-To: <199712240726.XAA07267@dog.farm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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)