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From: vccubed@phoenix.net (Keith Veseleny)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How to get nptdate to automatically update system time?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:41:35 GMT
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I have setup ntpdate="apple.com" in my sysconfig file, however, it
doesn't appear to update the machines time and this bios loses almost
10 minutes a day.  Do I need to perform a cron job or some other task
to get this to work?

Thanks in advance,

Keith
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Keith R. Veseleny             vccubed@phoenix.net            Houston, Texas
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