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Modified: . INSTALL Log: Correct the numbering, add hint to official vendor patches to make the user aware of this fact and add more information about NTP. Revision Changes Path 1.30 +18 -8 apache-1.3/INSTALL Index: INSTALL =================================================================== RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache-1.3/INSTALL,v retrieving revision 1.29 retrieving revision 1.30 diff -u -r1.29 -r1.30 --- INSTALL 1998/05/20 10:19:11 1.29 +++ INSTALL 1998/05/22 07:25:01 1.30 @@ -356,16 +356,26 @@ http://www.apache.org/docs/ for a complete reference of available configuration directives. - 9. Set your system time properly! - ------------------------------ + 8. Preparing the system + -------------------- - Proper operation of a public web server requires accurate time - keeping, since elements of the HTTP protocol are expressed as the time - of day. So, it's time to investigate setting up NTP or some other - time synchronization system on your Unix box, or whatever the - equivalent on NT would be. + Proper operation of a public HTTP server requires at least the following: - 8. Contacts + 1. A correctly working TCP/IP layer, since HTTP is implemented on top of + TCP/IP. Although modern Unix platforms have good networking layers, + always make sure you have all official vendor patches referring to the + network layer applied. + + 2. Accurate time keeping, since elements of the HTTP protocol are + expressed as the time of day. So, it's time to investigate setting + some time synchronization facility on your system. Usually the ntpdate + or xntpd programs are used for this purpose which are based on the + Network Time Protocol (NTP). See the Usenet newsgroup + comp.protocols.time.ntp and the NTP homepage at + http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ for more details about NTP software + and public time servers. + + 9. Contacts -------- o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,