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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:11:18 +0000
From:      Stuart Henderson <sh@eclipse.net.uk>
To:        ndear@areti.net
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Setting time and date via ntp.
Message-ID:  <3850FBF6.4550F384@eclipse.net.uk>
References:  <199912101234.MAA12252@post.mail.areti.net>

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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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