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From: greg@umbc5.umbc.edu (Greg Sylvain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: time daemon program needed
Keywords: timed
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Date: 4 Oct 89 15:05:06 GMT
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	Hi, I currently work in an environment that consists of several HP work stations placed all around campus, all of with are on the net.  And they are all running X11R3, with the xdm window login prompt.  (This is just a daemon the puts up a nice login prompt in the middle of the screen, and blanks the screen after a while.)  And they keep their own times, and after a while the time gets too far off for xdm and the Xserver to talk (xdm keeps its own S/W representation of the time).  And each time xdm wakes 







up and can't connect to the X server (the server sleeps according to the system clock), xdm fires off a new server.  Unfortunately, the original server is still running and still has the socket locked, so the new X server can't connect to the socket.  Well this goes on and you can imageine what happens.  Eventually the machine is brought to its knees, with a full process table.

	So I was wondering if there is or if anyone is working on a time daemon program to get the time from a central computer, and reset its clock.  Any one have one out there ??

		Thanks for any help,
		greg
		Systems Programmer
		University of Maryland Baltimore County