On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:49:20 EDT, Alan Shutko writes: >Right... some Unix programs get upset by too great a change in time, >though I don't know of any major problems.
I've had kernel-panics when the time was set backwards. >IIRC, ntpd will eventually slew the clock to the correct time, it just >may take a while. That's the default, though you can force it to do otherwise. Use ntpdate for that. You get the benefits of both worlds that way. cheers, &rw -- -- AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds -- of ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and -- rotten cabbage at the other cars. -- ASR about "Information Superhighway" analogy ----
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