On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Robert, > > > is there a way to have that sync take place immediately > > using "ntpd", rather than waiting for the next sync operation, to > > more closely emulate the behaviour of ntpdate? > > > > or am i misreading the man page? > > The man page also mentions the option iburst that needs to be specified > for this to work. Never tested this, as my firewall is not that mobile > :) . If that doesn't work you could try setting minpoll to a very low > number. but the "iburst" option, as useful as it might be, is meant to be placed in the config file /etc/ntp.conf. i was looking for an explicit command-line option so that i could sync the system time *without* having to mess with the config file first. as deprecated as "ntpdate" might be, it at least had the virtue of being self-contained. rday
