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From: "Casey Scott" <casey@nixfusion.com>
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Subject: Re: ntpd
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 10:10:07 -0500
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Is that to save the resources that ntpd uses, or does it (ntpdate)
circumvent the kernel's 1 second adjustment limitation?

Casey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com>
To: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc: "Casey Scott" <casey@nixfusion.com>; "freebsd-questions"
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Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: ntpd


> [in reply to Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, 07/04/02]
>
> > ntpd makes its changes gently; if your hardware clock is particularly
> > poor, you might want to consider running ntpdate after boot, then ntpd.
>
> I have a box that drifts a few seconds each day. I've created a simple
> shell script to synchronize my main ntp server with a known good ntp
> server on the net: /etc/periodic/daily/606.ntpdate
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo " "
> echo "Synchronizing system time:"
> ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl
>
> --
>  Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998
>
>


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