On 2011-01-27, Lorenzo Beretta <lory.fu...@infinito.it> wrote:
[...]
> About ntp:
> 1) unless you *explicitly* order otherwise, it's meant for *small* clock 
> adjustments, up to a few seconds every day; so you must either force ntp 
> tp accept a big correction, or manually set the time with a decent 
> accuracy and then let ntp sync exactly
> 2) I may be rong about this, but I'm at least 70% sure that no ntp 
> package is installed by default, save maybe ntpdate; if nothing else is 
> installed, you can install any ntp client you choose

If the ntp daemon is already installed, running 'ntpd -q' will do a
one-off time reset. Add the '-g' option for large adjustments.

-- 
Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland



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