On Saturday 22 March 2003 21:17, Sven Blumenstein wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any advantage of ntpd over rdate, when I just want to synchronize > the time? If anyone is interested, I set rdate like this in my crontab: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub $ cat /etc/crontab | grep rdate > 0 0 */14 * * rdate -s ntp1.ptb.de ntp2.ptb.de >
ntpd makes sure that time doesn't go backwards (esp. make does not like this at all), and that a "second" lasts approximately one second because it contiously manages the system clock according to the server's time. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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