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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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