Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 10:10:07 -0500 From: "Casey Scott" <casey@nixfusion.com> To: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com>, "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <001d01c1de46$5557d0e0$0601a8c0@nixfusion.com> References: <20020407165025.G31541-100000@surreal.nl>
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Is that to save the resources that ntpd uses, or does it (ntpdate) circumvent the kernel's 1 second adjustment limitation? Casey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com> To: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: "Casey Scott" <casey@nixfusion.com>; "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: Re: ntpd > [in reply to Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, 07/04/02] > > > ntpd makes its changes gently; if your hardware clock is particularly > > poor, you might want to consider running ntpdate after boot, then ntpd. > > I have a box that drifts a few seconds each day. I've created a simple > shell script to synchronize my main ntp server with a known good ntp > server on the net: /etc/periodic/daily/606.ntpdate > > #!/bin/sh > echo " " > echo "Synchronizing system time:" > ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl > > -- > Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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