World: r3wp

It's a software clock once running, so these things are usually due 
to badly behaved programs disabling interrupts for short whiles

So the less you have on your system, the less that can disturb it

How much is running on the host system?

A few vms

That could also be it

Do you have time problems on all VMs?

no

Just the linux ones which don't have vmware tools installed

Looks like I'm only currerntly just running Windows 2003 server

Only W2003 in another VM?

yes

A lot on it?

just a few rebol servers

using windows 2003 as I need odbc

Odd

#!/sbin/rebol  -qw
Rebol [
 file: %update.r

 purpose: {Update the system clock based upon the nist.gov time server}
 author: {Graham Chiu}
 date: 15-Apr-2007
]

get-nist-correction: func [/local nist-time cpu-time mjd hms] [
 nist-time: read daytime://time-a.nist.gov
 cpu-time: now

 parse/all nist-time [skip copy mjd 5 skip 2 thru " " copy hms 8 skip]
 nist-time: 17/Nov/1858 + to integer! mjd
 nist-time/time: to time! hms
 nist-correction: difference nist-time cpu-time
]

forever [
 if error? set/any 'err try [
 print [ "Current time was: " now ]
 current-time: now + get-nist-correction
 print [ "New time is: " current-time ]

 s: rejoin [ "date -s " {"} current-time/month "/" current-time/day 
 "/" current-time/year " " current-time/time {"} ]
 probe s
 call s 
 ][ probe mold disarm err ]
 wait 00:02:00 ;; wait 2 mins
]

Interesting case, though. Virtualisation is one of the areas I want 
to focus on with Syllable Server

Looks like Ladislav and I wrote this.

the other way is just setup a time server on the host os and use 
the daylight protocol

daytime

How big is your RebelBB message database at the momen?

not very big.  It's just a mail folder

wouldn

wouldn't be more than 100 messages

I use it as a knowledgebase

Oh :-)

That's very lightweight

Could replace the whole RebelBB/Dovecot thing with a REBOL script 
in an evening :-)

It's supposed to be scaleable :)

It would be :-)

I actually stripped out all the html and compress the data which 
is then downloaded by a rebol client

Aargh. How about just doing this with REBOL/Services?

then I would have to write a bbs ( again again again ) in Rebol!

Well, if you call a table of hundred lines a BBS :-)

Is it even updated through a web interface, or just through the REBOL 
client?

registration is via the web ...

OK

but messages are thru the Rebol client

Odd. Doesn't sound like a problem to combine it?

Saved me time :)

http://www.compkarori.co.nz:9000/cgi-bin/rebelBB.cgi

Sounds like it costs more time to configure all the pieces (and keep 
them running on time) then to write it in REBOL

Similar considerations made me build two operating systems instead 
of keeping messing with Linux and Windows

the idea was to avoid writing any specific rebol scripts

But you did, for the REBOL client, and the time?

and to avoid messing with dbms

But you configured an IMAP database?

sure ...

well, there's only one user ... the rebelbb script.

I'll let it go around in my brain and keep you posted on my work