[tech] network time

[Jean-Paul Blaquiere]

> On Nov 01, Andrew Williams illuminated :

> > are *all* the machines in ucc running ntpd?
> > at least mussel is out of sync relative to morwong.
> 
> 'ntpq' shows mussel, mermaid, morwong, mooneye and elysium no more than
> 10ms apart, and all are running ntpd. When did you motice a problem?
> 
hmmm intriging.   Pretty much every time I log into mussel to read mail.
which includes today, and random times in the past.
the symptoms displayed are that when switching between mailboxes (in mutt)
the one just left gets immediately noted as having received new mail and
mutt wants to switch straight back to it.


./jp
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