Re: clockspeed adjustments

2003-05-31T01:32:41 Payal Rathod:
> The clockspeed man page says that,
> clockspeed reads the real-time measurements from  /usr/local/clockspeed/adjust.
> 
> But doing an ls -l on adjust gives just,
> prw-------    1 root     root            0 Mar 27 14:00 adjust|

So it's a named pipe; that's an inter-process communication (IPC)
endoint, a way for another program to attach to clockspeed and feed
it some info.

> How does it help to adjust the clock from a reliable time source?

It provides a rendesvous point. You need to look at taiclock and
sntpclock.

-Bennett

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