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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: XNTP help 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:55:57 CST."
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On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:55:57 CST, "Mark Einreinhof" wrote:

> Tried what you said and it works initially, i.e. resyncs the time but
> still speeds up time as the days progresses. I think I may just take
> your lines below and create a script and run the script as a cron job.

That shouldn't be necessary, because xntpd is supposed to keep you
synced.  Watch your /var/log/messages for indications of xntpd failure.

> Any other thoughts? Should I add more than one server to ntp.conf?

Never hurts. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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