[Techtalk] Silly question time...

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:56:05AM +1000, Dana Sibera. wrote:
> Just to poke me in the right direction - I'm running Debian 68k Linux on 
> a Mac Quadra as a web server - what package name should I be looking 
> for, for a daemon which could synchronise the time with a nearby 
> machine, or perhaps just any other time server?
> 
> My Quadra's clock seems to lose about 7 minutes a day. That's just a 
> little too much

That's an awfully large amount! :-(

Look for either ntpd or rdate (not sure what the exact Debian package
names will be. The rdate program is for once off adjustments (you just
run it periodically), ntpd works continuously and makes adjustments for
network lag, etc.

Generally, ntpd is my tool of choice.

Malcolm

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