Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Thursday 2007-08-16 at 11:48 -0700, Sloan wrote: > > >>> rcntpd restart > >> Which will not work at all if he is not using ntpd. > > IIUC the discussion concerned how to best restart ntpd. The OP was > > concerned about the accuracy of time on his linux system, and ntpd (or > > periodic ntpdate) is the obvious answer. > > No, it isn't. Not if he has a missaligned "/etc/adjtime", as he surely > has, and that is not solved by restarting ntpd a hundred times. Everytime > he boots up the time would be bad again. I've not seen that condition in 10 years among the few hundred linux boxes here, but should /etc/adjtime actually be defective, one could just nuke it and be good to go. I'd be more concerned with the root cause, i.e. how did /etc/adjtime get corrupted in the first place.
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