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Re: time on an SMP machine
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Yedidya Bar-david wrote:
> Hello ira,
>
> You said the hardware clock is not affected. did you try
> to use /sbin/clock -s (or -a)? do man 8 clock.
hardware clocks are even worse, they are really off.
> I don't have such a machine to check, but, if it works,
> I think it is better than to have another machine as a
> clock only (unless you have a big server farm, where
> adding another one is not an issue).
I have my firewall synching to NASA (Moffet Field is around the corner)
and Stanford, and then serving NTP to the entire network. (lots of
servers, Linux and NT desktops, etc)
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Ira Abramov <ira(a)scso.com> whois: IA58 (a linux enthusiast)
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