I use xntpd and have no problems, no cron jobs to maintain, etc. I
just have it run at boot, with a few public timeservers in the
xntpd.conf file. Keeps the clock perfectly synchronized, even during
the change to Daylight Savings Time. It seems to me the rdate/hwclock
combo is a bit of a kludge, no?
Of course, the ntp daemon only makes sense if you have an always-on
connection to the net.
As for Ken's original query, I'm afraid I only know the quirks of
xntpd, not ntpd so I'm not sure what the problem might be. I assume
you do have the ntp daemon running with root permissions and all that,
right?
> ken crist wrote:
>
> > Is anyone out there using ntp on a Linux Mandrake Pentium computer?
>> >
>> > Perhaps someone knows of a tool other than ntp for setting the clock
>> > similar to those that are available for windows. I wanted to be able to
>> > do the same thing in Linux.
>
Civileme wrote:
>
> at boot in rc.local
>
> rdate -s tick.gatech.edu
> hwclock --systohc
>
> You can also abandon ntp altogether and hand cron that two-line
> script to execute now and then--I have it doen daily for the
> computers on my small network. (Keeps the folks from saying
> "BRING BACK MICROSOFT!" when the shift to or from Daylight
> savings time comes).
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