In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kristian Soerensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>xntpd is available and is what most people are using unless the machine is
>short of RAM. It can take a few minutes of manual reading to get going but
>apart from that it's great.
>
>You can find a rpm file with xntpd and it's utilities, documentation etc.
>in the contrib directory on ftp.redhat.com or one of it's mirrors.
I recommend nothing less than xntpd for time synchronization. xntpd will
actually attempt to correct your system's local clock by adjusting it to
run slightly faster or slower based on its drift from the reference time.
It's also very cheap in terms of RAM usage. xntpd also has authentication
and some sanity checks (it won't let your clock be set back to 1980, for
instance).
rdate and timed just reset the clock by brute force in a cron job.
--
Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (play). It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE!
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