Brett Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> Within my own network, I have used cron and ntpdate (even though it's
> officially deprecated) on most of the clients, querying a couple of
I think ntpdate is only deprecated because it's functionality is provided
by 'ntpd -q'
> on them. But it obviously has some drawbacks; in particular, it doesn't
> continuously correct the clocks but makes them jump at particular
> times of day.
Until recently, I'd been using this too, however, using the '-B' option to
ntpdate ('-x' to nptd) to slew the clock instead. A couple of these a day in
cron causes neglegable drift, unless your clock ain't too good!
Cheers, Jamie
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