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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:27:46 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: timed vs. NTP
Message-ID:  <199610021457.AAA22656@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961002160847.24317A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Oct 2, 96 04:16:45 pm

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Andrzej Bialecki stands accused of saying:
> 
> I just stumbled across a certain problem: I must use a kind of NTP 
> between a few FBSD machines (one of them has horribly unstable clock :-(
> So I thought the timed would be good for this. But it seems the timed 
> works only on the same LAN, and my machines are connected through 
> Internet (several routers between).
> Well, I looked for a port of NTP daemon in /ports, but there is none. 
> Could someone suggest me a way to solve this (I'm prepared even to some 
> hacking of timed code, if need be...)?

If you just want reasonable precision, run 'ntpdate' out of cron.  If
you're madly keen, try 'man xntpd'.

> Andy.

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