At 9:48 Uhr -0600 18.11.2002, Jonathan Newquist wrote:
>Regarding your quadra's time-syncing question, have you tried installing
>ntpd?  I got some ridiculous drift rates while compiling kernels &
>packages too, but the problem went away after I got ntpd running.
>
>It was quite easy; even I could do it:
>
>Even if you dont have a good outside clock server, you can make all your
>internal boxes "peers" to each other, and they should sync well enough for
>your logfile purposes.  I have heard DEC machines had excellent clocks;
>dont know if that would be true of your Compaq too.

If you have a good time-keeper around running *nix, I'd recommend setting
it up with a timed server side-by-side to ntpd, and let the clients run
timed slaves. ntpd is quite heavyweight on the m68k scale, and its greater
accuracy over timed is irrelevant for mac68k.

	hauke


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