> From: Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:12:32 +0200
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:58:45PM +0100, James Raftery wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:39:32AM -0300, martin langhoff wrote:
> > > The other machine has a intermittent connection, so I'm looking for a
> > > way to synchronize on a command (instead of a daemon).
> >
> > The xntp package includes ntpdate. It does just this.
> >
> > > Am I too misguided? How are you guys keeping machines in synch?
> >
> > xntpd, even on dial-up machines.
>
> But when does xntpd send out requests then? It seems to only do so every
> once in a while, and if I'm not dialed in at that time, it fails.
You can set the period in the configuration file. I believe the default is
every 64 seconds (needs to be a power of 2).
Chris
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