Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:26:25 -0700 From: "Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> To: "Bill Fumerola" <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Peter Jeremy" <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, "Harlan Stenn" <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Flag for NTP slew only? Message-ID: <NDBBKDINCKINCMKCHGCICECLCMAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000517163143.M86725@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Fumerola > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 1:32 PM > On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:18:28AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > 2) Regular use of ntpdate (eg from cron) to keep the system clock > > fairly close to real time without the overheads of permanently > > running nptd. > > > > Whilst this is less of an issue for modern systems, people may > > still have reasons for not wanting to run ntpd. > > We have reasons for only running ntpdate, and not keeping ntpd running. > > (speaking as the administrator of EFNet's irc.lsl.com) > ntpdate is also useful for people on dialups, 3/4 of the day xntpd would be out of sync anyways, or needlessly calling the isp just to send a few ntp packets. I just manually run ntpdate whenever i remember to, my clock drifts about 10 seconds a month, which is close enough for me. Sameer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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