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From: Joseph Stein <joes@spiritone.com>
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Subject: keeping the date current...
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Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:26:22 -0700 (PDT)
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I have a cron job setup to poll several timeservers with ntpdate to keep
the clock on my machine somewhat current.

However, everytime the clock is sync'd, it is adjusted by -4.xxx seconds.

Is there a way to tune the clock a little better?

If so, how,

and if the answer is xntpd, how to set it up without the authentication???

Thanks in advance for your help,

joe