- The lack of NTP daemon to synchronize the system with the rest of the network.
That was added in 5.3. This was Most Excellent, because my nightly cron
Oh my! After 3+ years agonizing wait they finally did it!!! Now, only if 5.3 is stable enough for us to move to :-)
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From: Luke Mewburn lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:31:32 +1000 Subject: Re: How does Netapps win and lose business? To: tkaczma@gryf.net Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
tkaczma@gryf.net writes:
What I dislike about NetApps (Some of these might have been fixed in 5.3.x): [...]
- The lack of NTP daemon to synchronize the system with the rest of the network.
That was added in 5.3. This was Most Excellent, because my nightly cron job to 'rsh FILER rdate UNIXBOX' was a hack that slightly annoyed me :-)
Here's a couple of commands (with hostnames sanitized).
# date ; rsh FILER date Wed Aug 11 22:22:45 EST 1999 Wed Aug 11 22:22:45 EST 1999
# rsh FILER options | grep timed timed.enable on timed.log off timed.max_skew 30m timed.proto ntp timed.sched hourly timed.servers NTPSERVER1-IP,NTPSERVER2-IP
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---philip thomas