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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 at 17:44 (+0100), RW wrote:
On Friday 22 July 2005 16:24, Mike Friedman wrote:
Because of clock drift on my system, I decided to run ntpdate daily,
instead of just at boot time. So, what I did was create a symlink in
/etc/periodic/daily: 600.ntpdate -> /etc/rc.d/ntpdate, thus leveraging
the existing ntpdate script that runs at boot time. My rc.conf already
has 'ntpdate_enable="YES"' and sets 'ntpdate_program' and
'ntpdate_hosts'. In fact, if I cd to /etc/periodic/daily and manually
enter './600.ntpdate start', it runs fine.
Yet, it appears that ntpdate is NOT running automatically each day as
part of periodic daily processing. Any ideas on why this is the case?
Is there a restriction about symlinks and periodic processing?
That's not the best way to do it.
Normally ntpdate corrects gross clock errors at boot time, and then ntpd
keeps the clock on track by continuous adjustment. It's covered in the
manual.
Yes, I suppose I should run ntpd as well. Though I'm not sure what you
mean by 'normally', considering that 'ntpd_enable="NO"' is the default set
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
Anyway, I'll just enable ntpd; that does sound like the right way to do it.
Although I'm still curious as to why periodic daily processing didn't pick
up my symlinked ntpdate script
Thanks.
Mike
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