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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tickadj -t not changing tick
Message-ID:  <199807161447.KAA06046@rtfm.ziplink.net>
In-Reply-To: <35aeb750.209593961@mail.cetlink.net> from "John Kelly" at "Jul 16, 98 08:38:25 am"

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John Kelly once stated:

=On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:23:27 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp
=<phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:

=>The real way is to run ntpd, if you don't have a permanent connection,
=>consider looking into "burstmode" in the new xntpd4...

=According to John Polstra in an archived message about tickadj, his
="real way" is to adjust the undisciplined clock before running xntpd,
=formerly with tickadj, but now via sysctl as Bruce suggested.  I like
=the idea of getting the kernel synchronized with the hardware before
=trying to run xntpd.
[...]

You, people, are just kidding, right? There is no way this nonsense
is going to be required for longer then a week, until one wizard
or another commits a patch? My machine hare not only ran windoze
without time problems before it came to my hands, it also ran
FreeBSD-2.2 with clock running just peachy.

	-mi

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