Re: How to keep date/time accurate

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


Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:26:53 -0400

In article <bls0pu$dpm$05$1@news.t-online.com>, Cobra <mtcobra@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Created a file called gettime (or anything like that) in the /etc/init.d
> folder with the following code in it. Activate gettime for runlevel 3 and 5
> in the runlevel editor. Then the correct time will be set on startup.

...snip...

Thanks. Cobra. That would be good if the machine were rebooted
frequently.

In this case, it's a server and is hardly ever rebooted. I think that
makes the xntpd or netdate solutions better for me.

  -- Sally

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