On 10/28/98 09:28:15 you wrote:

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If I recall correctly, NetApp suggests you don't cron rdate's to run on the hour because it's possible to step the clock past the hour and miss a scheduled event such as raid scrubbing or snapshots. I beleive I read this on NOW, not sure.

Interesting! Wish they would provide an alternate solution. 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 remoteshell filer1 "hello brain dead, here is your date/time" remoteshell filre2 "hello brain dead, here is your date/time" ....

An understandable reaction, but slightly misguided. *frequent* rdates, particularly those at the top or "common" offsets of the hour, when another cron event is to take place, are what breaks it. Doing a infrequent rdate, say 4 times an hour at odd offsets like 12, 27, 42, and 57 minutes, should be just fine.

However, this is a problem that does need to be fixed once and for all. Most people probably never experience it.

Bruce