On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:45 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > I thought of that but apparently we need the date chagne to take > > effect almost immediatly, well within 30 mins. > > > > If we set the date of our test network fwd 1 year the ntp would take > > several hours or probably more to catch up. > > Ntp will give up trying to sync if the clocks are off by more than 5 minutes. > > What are you really trying to do?? The init script that starts ntpd runs ntpdate first for the initial setting at bootup. After other programs (especially cron) are started you normally want to adjust less than a second at a time so you don't miss any timer boundaries. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
