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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 19:51:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, David Kelly wrote:

> May I also suggest saving your drift file? Add the following to
> /etc/ntp.config:
> 
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift

What does that buy me?  (curiosity)

> That's actually xntpd's default values. Would empty quotes work
> here?

Maybe.  I use the default just for good measure.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major