Do you mean adjtime by any chance? Unfortunately the values in its fields do not seem to be well defined. It is part of the initscripts package.
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On 2012/10/02 22:09, g wrote:
greetings. in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a 'clock factor' and controls the 'tick rate' for the system clock. is such a file used in scientific linux and what is it's name? tia.
