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
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