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Date:      Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:45:36 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: clock problem
Message-ID:  <200201042245.g04Mjat98429@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104142346.03783678@pop3s.schulte.org>

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Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> wrote:
 > You can cron `ntpdate` to update the clock every minute.

Much more reasonable would be to run ntpdate once during
boot and then run the ntpd daemon.  Do not run ntpdate with
cron.

All of this can be done in /etc/rc.conf (and you also need
a smallish /etc/ntp.conf to configure your NTP servers).

Regards
   Oliver

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