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From: Franz Fripplfrappl 
Subject: Re: time server
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:47:20 -0600
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:14:02 +0900, Dan N wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:15:14 +0000, Franz Fripplfrappl wrote:
> 
>> I've only had Ubuntu on this box for 3 weeks or so.  At first the clock
>> was in sync with Internet server(s), not it's not.  In fact, the clock
>> has gained nearly 20 minutes in past day or so.
> 
> I've never had much success with getting an ntp server going.  An easy
> alternative it to write a cron task that uses ntpdate to update the time
> at a regular interval.
> 
> Dan

I never had problems while using Mandriva.  Will look into the cron thing.
 Not sure how to write a task.  Thanks for tip.
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