On 1/30/07, Bob Hartmann <bhartm at visi.com> wrote: > > why does my clock run so fast? This is the second mobo to do this. > Same AMD 1700+, btw. I guess that's the culprit. I could cron it, I > know. I just do this: > alias date='sudo /etc/init.d/ntpdate restart;date' > and then I forget to run date. > OK, I'm back from the future. Why don't you just run ntpd? That'll constantly take care of keeping your clock in sync and you'll be able to forget about it. After GNU screen, ntpd is always the first thing I install and get running on new server builds. -Erik