From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 15:51:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7445D37B421 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from schulte-laptop.nospam.schulte.org (nb-65.netbriefings.com [209.134.134.65]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9420F2440D for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:51:21 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104174545.03fbdc90@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:50:47 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: clock problem In-Reply-To: <200201042245.g04Mjat98429@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104142346.03783678@pop3s.schulte.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:45 PM 1/4/2002 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: >Christopher Schulte 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. I have a central ntp server on my network, by which all hosts ntpdate via=20 cron. I prefer this method as one static crontab line keeps every system=20 on check. Since no clock will ever deviate by even a second between polls,= =20 I don't have to worry about sudden time changes. Reasonable? Sure. Elegant? Maybe not. Works? Yup! >Regards > Oliver --chris >-- >Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 M=FCnchen >Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author >and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. > >"All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message