20030315: wxbox clock drift (cont.)

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>Keywords: 200303152113.h2FLD4B2006810 LDM IDD time ntpdate

Hi Tony,

I just looked at the latencies for the HDS feed on wxbox:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/chiz/rtstats/siteindex.shtml?wxbox.mscd.edu

and see that the clock is drifting.  Did you setup ntpdate as per
our previous conversation:

>The fix for the clock problem is to run ntpdate from 'root's cron.
>This will look something like:
>
>#
># Set the system clock
>#
>0 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate zero.unidata.ucar.edu > /dev/null

If so, I need to check with Mike Schmidt about using zero as the time
server for wxbox.

Tom
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