On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:58:36AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > The following is from the output of 'date' run from the same shell about > > 1 second apart: > > > > 12:13:37 > > 13:25:08 > > 12:13:34 > >
Check your crontabs carefully. Dead Rat included some obscure program to update your clock from the hardware clock to prevent missed clock interupts (which happen quite often) from skewing your time. I'm not familair with Debian, but that does not prevent them from doing the same. The optimum way to do it, IMHO is to run NTPd with a stratum 1 server as the source. If you have more than one computer on your network, only sync one to the external world, sync the rest to it. I am a Nevtvision customer, they use a GPS unit to give them a stratum one server. I would avoid the overloaded server at HUJI if at all possible. If you have some spare cash, have many computers to sync, and have a window with a decent exposure to the sky (or access to a roof, etc), then you may want to use your own GPS. Any one that talks the standard protocol (whose name I forget, but a quick web search or NTP doc check will tell you), will do as long as it runs on an external power source. You might even be able to pick up a used one fairly cheaply. If you post a note to the "geeks" list (www.mrbill.net), you can get information on how to do it and possible sources of surplus equipment. Last week, one person on the list grabbed a few units from a company throwing them out and there was a disccusion on how to use them as time servers. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 VoN Skype: mendelsonfamily. Looking for work as a CTO or consultant in handheld gaming, large systems development, handheld device construction, etc. Support amateur (ham) radio, boycott Google!!! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
