Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:53:16 +1000 From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting the Time || Public Time Servers Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020816094820.03de6980@pop.ozemail.com.au> In-Reply-To: <878z38kx8t.fsf@pooh.int> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208141635310.20386-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208141635310.20386-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>
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At 09:33 15/08/2002 -0500, Kirk Strauser sent this up the stick: >At 2002-08-14T23:37:14Z, Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> writes: > > > Also take a look at clockspeed (/usr/ports/sysutils) to obviate the need > > for running ntpd or ntpdate consistently. > > >Given that the software requires system modifications to run properly, and >that it essentially emulates NTP in a non-NTP-compatible manner, does it >actually have any advantages worth knowing about? It seems to calculate drift rates better than ntpd, and also correct for leap seconds - which is onl;y good if the machine is only intermittently connected to the 'net Cheers, Rob -- It's not that they die, but that they die like sheep. This is random quote 718 of a collection of 1254 [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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