From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 26 10:22:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA24760 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 10:22:39 -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 KAA24748 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 10:22:26 -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 TAA09446 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 19:21:46 +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 SAA26396; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 18:53:01 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 18:53:01 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712261753.SAA26396@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: <680mo8$ctn$1@grunt.vl.net.ua> 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 Vladimir Litovka 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. ;-)