On Tuesday 30 January 2007 23:07, Erik Anderson wrote: > 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 http://www.openntpd.org/