Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 11:55:36 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procedure to adjust clock drift? Message-ID: <199712241055.LAA17159@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199712240726.XAA07267@dog.farm.org>
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Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> wrote: > maybe this is a good idea for standard /etc/daily ?? Setting date > by ntpdate only on boot looks like useless idea to me - freebsd boxes > have trend to stay up for months... ;-) If you've got an NTP server at your reach, the idea is that you call ntpdate at boot-time, and run xntpd to stay in sync afterwards. Calling ntpdate repeatedly in a running system is not a good idea, since it'll cause `time warp's. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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