keeping time

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 18:07 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> I have an Ubuntu 6.10 system running 24/7 which gains more
> than two hours every week.
> 
> For the purposes of this discussion, assume that the system
> has *no* external inputs -- only me at the console -- no
> network connection of any kind.
> 
> What can I set_up / tweak so that the time being kept by
> the system is more accurate ?

NTP is the software you want. You can run it to sync daily or hourly
from a script in /etc/cron.hourly or /etc/cron.daily.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntp
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntp-simple
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntpdate
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntp-server

mike

> 
> Thanks,  mikus
> 
> 
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