According to T. Sean: While burning my CPU.
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> How can I set my linux box up to be a time server for another machine? I
> have seen several how-to's on setting the time, but I have yet to run
> across anything that tells me how to set the linux box up to send out
> time hacks when requested.
Normaly a standard installed linux system has a time sever defined in
/etc/inetd.conf
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> The reason I am trying to do this is, I have a Mac IIci running
> NetBSD/mac68k. Since Apple gave clock interrupts a pretty low priority
> (or so it has been explained to me), my NetBSD system loses time pretty
> steadily. This can be aggravated by a high system load, by a kernel
> compile for example. I would like to set up the NetBSD box to query the
> linux box for the time every ten or fifteen minutes or so. The linux box
> seems to keep pretty good time (it is in any case better than the NetBSD
> box), and I don't need any great level of accuracy. I just want to
> eliminate the annoyance of the NetBSD box being twenty minutes or more
> behind after being up a few days.
>
> TIA,
>
> Sean
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>
> Theo. Sean Schulze
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