[buug] NTP Time Setting

Joseph Zitt jzitt at metatronpress.com
Wed Oct 2 13:45:25 PDT 2002


On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:28:53 -0700
Dave Barry <dave at mikamyla.com> wrote:

> I believe the official way of doing things is to run ntpd locally,
> and have it adjust the clock gradually, rather than in one foul swoop
> via ntpdate. 

Yep, it appears that I do have ntpd running, but it doesn't appear to
be doing anything. I've found a page with a bewildering plethora of
possibilities at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/ntpd.htm
but I haven't figured out how get it to actually set the time on my
system.

One concern that I have about its working automatically is that I'm on
dialup (ugh), and so it probably wouldn't be able to check itself on a
regular schedule. Would this be a problem?

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