Why not run NTP? The approach of your predecessor is apparently to "jam sync" the clock periodically, which can be very jarring to some time-sensitive applications & services.
Curt On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > So you thought this matter was resolved forever, right? Ugh... > > Maintaining system scripts and it seems my predecessor was perfectly happy > with /etc/bin/rdate -s $timeserver followed by /sbin/hwclock --systohc. > Okay, fine. One asks about /usr/sbin/ntpdate -v $timeserver which I have > used a long time. Come to find out that ntpdate [ is being | was ] phased > out in favor of sntp. Why??? > > Worse, we run CentOS which has yet to encounter this changeover. Last > year, I encountered this opportunity while administering many SUSE servers > which spat at me if I tried to run ntpdate. > > I'm leaving rdate in place for now. > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
