On Thursday 15 August 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: > --- Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC, the ntp page says ntpdate is deprecated, since > > its functionality > > can now be duplicated with ntp (or ntpd, I > > forget)... > > Not sure what you're referring to, but rdate does the > job, so ntpdate still isn't needed :o)
Currently, the ntpd init script makes use of the ntpdate command to reset the hardware clock prior to starting the ntpd daemon (as recommend by the ntp web pages deep in than the one referenced above) so that the ntpd daemon does not have to work so hard to slew the kernel time. Not sure if it does anything for the ntpd daemon.... Although you can use rsync, if the the ntp package is installed and you are using ntpd, why not use the ntpdate command.
