On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:49:57AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: > On Sunday 15 December 2002 10:09 am, Henry House wrote: > > One more suggestion: try ntpdate, a daemonless version of NTP. It will not > > abruptly change the system time like rdate if the local clock is off by a > > large amount... > > Don't you mean a small amount? From > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/ntpdate.html: > > Time adjustments are made by ntpdate in one of two ways. > If ntpdate determines the clock is in error more than > 0.5 second it will simply step the time by calling the > system settimeofday() routine. If the error is less than > 0.5 seconds, it will slew the time by calling the system > adjtime() routine. The latter technique is less > disruptive and more accurate when the error is small, > and works quite well when ntpdate is run by cron every > hour or two.
Er, yes. Thanks. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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