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Re: (Not so) Stupid question
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> > 2. write a cron job that will write the time into a file, once a minute.
> ~~~~
> Been there done that...
> Took me a long time to realize that cron can't be used to diagnose clock
> troubles. IMHO cron is a victim of the problem, not a means of diagnosis.
> Better to use a process that waits on a read froma machine whose clock
> you trust.
a-ha! but if cron will mulfunction at the transition time - you will see
where in the log file this happened (e.g. cause there will be missing
entries after some location, or that the time will move backwards). for
this specific purpose, a cron job should work fine.
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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