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> What software can I use via crontab to periodically set the date to that provided
> by an NTP server?  We use netdate on Linux, but was wondering if there is
> something similar for FreeBSD?

As others have suggested, ntpdate, but it's better not
to run from crontab and instead to use xntpd which keeps a
drift file so that if the server can't be contacted, time
is still corrected.


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