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01-19-2008, 06:33 AM
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 Re: Keeping clock in sync 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.      |
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01-19-2008, 06:33 AM
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| Re: Keeping clock in sync 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. -- output = reverse("gro.gultn" "@" "enworbbc") http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/internet.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #3. "My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> |
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