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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Having a problem with the time sync from Solaris 10 to VirtualBox Post 302626577 by rbatte1 on Thursday 19th of April 2012 12:32:22 PM
Old 04-19-2012
Is there a reason that this is set as a cron job twice a day? If it's just convenient and you could increase the frequency, then you might consider using the deamon ntpd or xntpd

You can code up /etc/ntp.conf and start the deamon at system boot. It should then keep in step all the time, drifting the clock a few milliseconds either side of your time source.

See the man page for ntpd or xntpd and ntp.conf on how to set this up for your installation.


If it is the Windows clock that is going out, then that is another issue. I'm not sure how you set that to have a reference clock.



I hope that this helps
Robin
liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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sync(2) 							   System Calls 							   sync(2)

NAME
sync - update super block SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> void sync(void); DESCRIPTION
The sync() function writes all information in memory that should be on disk, including modified super blocks, modified inodes, and delayed block I/O. Unlike fsync(3C), which completes the writing before it returns, sync() schedules but does not necessarily complete the writing before returning. USAGE
The sync() function should be used by applications that examine a file system, such as fsck(1M), and df(1M), and is mandatory before rebooting. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
df(1M), fsck(1M), fsync(3C), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 sync(2)
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