From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 24 03:20:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA01128 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 03:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA01110 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 03:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id MAA13281 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 12:20:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id LAA17159; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 11:55:36 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 11:55:36 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712241055.LAA17159@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199712240726.XAA07267@dog.farm.org> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: procedure to adjust clock drift? X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Dmitry Kohmanyuk 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. ;-)