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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:52:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>
To:        Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        Casey Scott <casey@nixfusion.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ntpd
Message-ID:  <20020407165025.G31541-100000@surreal.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204071541000.19282-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>

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[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

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