Oops! Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> Tony Houghton wrote:
>
>> I know this subject has come up recently, but I didn't see anything
>> really useful in the other thread.
>>
>> I've been using ntpdate with Debian, which gives satisfactory results,
>> but I'd rather have something that runs in the background at intervals
>> instead of holding up my boot sequence. OK, I could gut the ntpdate
>> package and run it from cron/anacron, but I'd rather use a ready-made
>> solution.
>
> <snip>
> I have found a combination of cron (every 6 hours) + rdate -s <your
> favourite time server> to be quite satisfactory.

I'd think that running ntpd would be pretty satisfactory. It consumes
about 4MB of RAM on my system, which probably cost me about $1.
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