I'm looking for a way to display the system time on a device that can
be used in an office atmosphere. The location is an uncontrolled
office environment not near the computer room so I don't want to use
an unattended telnet session with the cde clock. Is there a way (or
device) to display the time so my users can use it as a clock?

g. doogle <gdoogle@yahoo.com> wrote:
gd> I'm looking for a way to display the system time on a device that can
gd> be used in an office atmosphere. The location is an uncontrolled
gd> office environment not near the computer room so I don't want to use
gd> an unattended telnet session with the cde clock. Is there a way (or
gd> device) to display the time so my users can use it as a clock?

You could use the network time protocol (NTP). The daemon on AIX
is xntpd. You'll find lots of documentation at http://www.ntp.org/.

Regards,

Nicholas

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gdoogle@yahoo.com (g. doogle) wrote in message news:<2eafbe56.0310161926.10bdd341@posting.google. com>...
> I'm looking for a way to display the system time on a device that can
> be used in an office atmosphere. The location is an uncontrolled
> office environment not near the computer room so I don't want to use
> an unattended telnet session with the cde clock. Is there a way (or
> device) to display the time so my users can use it as a clock?

You don't have to have an unattended telnet sessnion, you can have a
PC running X, export the display from the RS/6000 and then run xclock.

Steve