Re: How to keep date/time accurate

From: Sally Shears (sshears_at_theWorld.com)
Date: 10/08/03

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    In article <1065423236.668815@prawn>, Kevin & Theresa Miller
    <atftb@alaska.net> wrote:

    > Rouben Rostamian wrote:
    > > In article <051020032318255925%sshears@theWorld.com>,
    > > Sally Shears <sshears@theWorld.com> wrote:
    > >
    > >>I'm running SuSE 8.1 at runlevel 3 for a server machine.
    > >>
    > >>What application can I run with a Cron (or otherwise) to update the
    > >>system clock? Something similar to network update of date/time on a
    > >>Mac?
    > >
    > > NPT (Network Time Protocol) will do what you want.
    > >
    > > Fire up yast. Select:
    > >
    > > System -> Runlevel Editor -> Runlevel Properties
    > >
    > > find xntpd there and turn on the service.
    > >
    > > This description is based on suse 8.0. It may be slightly
    > > different in 8.1. At any rate, you want to start up the ntp daemon.
    >
    > But he'll need a time source. There's a number of places around the inet
    > that
    > are happy to let you sync to them. Should be an easy google. May even be that
    > his ISP is running one...

    Thank you all for the help on xntpd!

      -- Sally 

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