[NTLUG:Discuss] uptime ??

[Richard]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>   
>> Eric Waguespack wrote:
>>     
>>> On Feb 19, 2008 11:17 AM, Richard <ntlug at rain4us.net> wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> root at mailserver:/var/log/httpd# uptime
>>>>  11:20:11 up -24855 days, -3:-14,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>>>
>>>>         
>> It's a vmware guest machine.  <snip>
>>
>>     
> You cannot use ntp inside of VMware guests... use the VMware Toolbox
> instead and set it to synchronize with the host OS... 
My guest OSes don't normally run X.  I installed vmware-tools and set 
the guest to sync time with the host.  Does the setting work as long as 
vmware-guestd is running?
> you can use ntp on the host.
>
>   
Do I understand you correctly that you are classifying ntpd and ntpdate 
together as  'ntp'.

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Richard