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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:51:14 -0500
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
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Subject: Re: Setting time from bios
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At 05:08 PM 3/27/98 -0600, you wrote:
>In the last episode (Mar 27), dennis said:
>> 
>> Our servers run rather fast...is there a way to get them to read the
>> time from the bios (other than rebooting of course).
>
>Do you mean the clocks are running too fast for xntpd to keep accurate
>time?
>
>	-Dan Nelson
>	dnelson@emsphone.com
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Why do I need to run "yet another deamon" on my servers when I have a
perfectly
accurate clock in the machine?

I suppose the answer is that you can't do it, correct?

db

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