[ntp:questions] Re: Problem with NTP not keeping clock in sync under Ubuntu linux

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Aug 10 14:22:53 UTC 2005


At 2:58 PM +0100 2005-08-10, Laurence Rowe wrote:

>  # don't worry about the clock being out of step a long way
>  tinker panic 0 stepout 0
>
>  But I'm obviously no expert at this...

	You should never use "tinker" options unless you know exactly 
what they do and why you should be using them.  There be dragons here.

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