On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:44, Julian Elischer wrote: > > very clever! > > > > however it doesn't phaselock to teh time and still drifts. > > I need to trigger on (for example) 10 second boundaries across 50 > > synchronised machines.. > > (so thatthe machines agree about the sampling period.) > > How about a cron job which writes characters into a fifo every ten > secconds. The script can wait for the next ten second mark by reading a > single char from the other end of the fifo. how does a cron job run evey 10 seconds? also this woudl seem something that is a bit beyond a simple shell script in terms of trouble you would go to. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > -- +------------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ julian_at_elischer.org +------>x USA \ a very strange | ( OZ ) \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ presently in San Francisco \_/ \\ vReceived on Thu Feb 03 2005 - 09:17:45 UTC
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