In article <[email protected]>, Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> wrote: [I wrote:] >> What is actually needed at boot time is usually neither of these >> things. It's more like "if the clock needs to be stepped >> backwards, figure this out as quickly as possible, before any >> important services start, accepting that there is some small chance >> that an additional step in either direction may be required." > >Sounds reasonable - how do we do it?
Well, I do it by using ntpdate(1) and choosing the servers carefully. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are [email protected]| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
