[top posting out of childish insolence] You are all spending far more time on this than I plan to. If you send a delagation to my door, MAYBE I'll let you in to do it for me ... but wipe your feet.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:21:02AM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 10/27/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:46:36PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > >> Lan Barnes wrote: > >> > >> >As I've already said, I expect drift ... meetcha tomorrow in half an > >> >hour. > >> > >> Um, why will it drift? > >> > >> Turn on ntp. Really. ntp does a phenomally good job of keeping clocks > >> synchronized while still maintaining monotonicity (which is required for > >> reliable source control timestamps). > >> > >> With pool.ntp.org providing automagic time servers, there really isn't > >> any good reason not to use it anymore. > >> > >> ntp will actually work out what the consistent drift in your clock is > >> and cancel it out. It's that good. However, if you really are drifting > >> that badly, it's probably time to replace the battery on the motherboard. > >> > >> -a > >> > > > >I've used npt and it was ... nice, I guess, but not enough that I want > >to go through setting it up again with all my other priorities. > > > >If/when I take my server to CentOS, I'll go to it then. > > Curious. What is your current OS? With my admittedly antiquated > Fedora Core 3, I have to go through the following sequence of mouse > motions: > > Applications -> System Settings -> Date & Time > give required root password > -> Network Time Protocol > check "enable" > > It used to be harder, but somebody GUI-fied it. > > carl > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- Lan Barnes Linux Guy, SCM Specialist Tcl/Tk Enthusiast We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Denis Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau (1762) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
