Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 18:53:01 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procedure to adjust clock drift? Message-ID: <199712261753.SAA26396@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <680mo8$ctn$1@grunt.vl.net.ua>
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Vladimir Litovka <doka@grunt.vl.net.ua-nospam> wrote: >> Calling ntpdate repeatedly in a running system is not a good idea, >> since it'll cause `time warp's. > You can call ntpdate every 1/2 hour, so time warps will be very > small. About link to the world: I have local NTP-server, which > sinchronizes with external servers, and set of local stations, which > sinchronize with my server for reduce load on outgoing link. Still, why can't you run xntpd on the clients against your local server? Apart from some saved virtual memory (for xntpd), i can't find any advantage in the `run ntpdate every 30 minutes' method. -- 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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