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Curt Sampson (cjs@portal.ca)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
On 20 Oct 1998, Brian Edmonds wrote:
> Sure, that would stop diald from trying to bring up the link, but then
> xntpd would probably get unhappy if I wasn't online for a while and it
> didn't happen to syncronize with my regular (but short) dialup periods.
It doesn't get unhappy, it just philisophically accepts the loss
of all of its servers, and keeps the clock in line with its last
calculated drift. :-)
> All in all it was much easier for me to set up and understand a
> cron-based time sync routine, and it kept the clock entirely accurate
> enough for my needs.
Seems like more work to me than just poking a hole in your firewall,
starting xntpd on boot, and forgetting about the whole thing.
cjs
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