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From: rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: 'rdate' for apollo
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.163409.17893@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 16:34:09 GMT
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In article <1990Apr11.135251.13805@DSI.COM>, syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
writes:
> I have suns on my net, but I changed them also over the ntpdate.
> (from louie.udel.edu).  ntpdate will poll master clock servers
> and create a local service if necessary to set your clocks to
> wwv time.

ntpdate has a bug that prevents it from working when run from cron.  Bill
Sommerfeld of Apollo sent me a fix, which I didn't use all of, but this
should be enough to make it work:

*** ntpdate.c_o	Wed Apr 11 12:32:17 1990
--- ntpdate.c	Wed Apr 11 12:31:31 1990
***************
*** 1158,1163 ****
--- 1158,1165 ----
  	full_recvbufs = 0;
  	free_recvbufs = sys_numservers + 2;
  
+ 	setpgrp(0, getpid());
+ 
  	/*
  	 * Point SIGIO at service routine
  	 */