Peter is now offical timekeeper was Re: [Wolves] my five mins of fame

Old Dan dan at dannyboy.dnsalias.org
Thu Jan 8 09:57:45 GMT 2004


Aquarius wrote:
> Peter Oliver spoo'd forth:
>>>Not now it isn't. When my machine is encoding video it loses time,
>>
>>Huh?
> Yep. The clock ends up wrong. Don't know why this is, and it isn't
> important enough to investigate :)
> 
>>>so I have to poke ntpdate to go and update itself. I suppose I ought to
>>>cron that,
>>Gah, no!  Like I said, ntpd.
> Last time I set it up I couldn't get it to work. Moreover, ntpd seemed
> to be designed for you serving time to other people; ntpdate was
> designed for you to keep the clock right on one machine, no?

It's nice to know I am not the only one who has had problems with that.

I thought it was me being thick!  (Probably still was... :) )

-- 
Dan





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