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From: mcguire@math.uiowa.edu (Charlie McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  An easy way to keep your clocks synchronized
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Date: 19 Oct 90 14:25:33 GMT
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In article <9010190839.AA03867@duc220.uni-duisburg.de>,
hj412fr@duc220.uni-duisburg.de (Frik) writes:
|> Are there any compelling reasons for not using the timed daemon to
|> synchronize clocks? I did that, and while possibly I have placed a
|> time-bomb into the uid-generation mechanism, it has not showed up
|> after several weeks of operation.

I've been running timed for about 10 months on 8 nodes with no
apparent problems.

Charlie McGuire				mcguire@math.uiowa.edu
Systems Programmer			mcguire@cs.uiowa.edu
Dept of Computer Science
The University of Iowa