The don't provide NTP and then they discourage us from cron'ing rdate. What do they think? I have nothing else meaningful to do, but sit here and periodically do
Hey - chill out. NTP is on the way. We all know that rsh/cron/rdate is brain-damaged.
"chill-out"?? I am 'frozen', waiting (since Feb 1994) for this elusive NTP from NetApp. :-)
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From: Nick Hilliard nick@iol.ie Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:17:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: raid scrubbing and hot spares To: thomas@act.sps.mot.com (Philip Thomas) Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
The don't provide NTP and then they discourage us from cron'ing rdate. What do they think? I have nothing else meaningful to do, but sit here and periodically do
Hey - chill out. NTP is on the way. We all know that rsh/cron/rdate is brain-damaged.
Besides, they don't discourage us from cron'ing rdate. It's just pretty dumb to run any time-independent process at the top of the hour, let alone rdate.
Nick Hilliard Ireland On-Line System Operations
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