Am Fr, den 30.01.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 17:03: > 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 I may misunderstand this discussion, but ntpd is a 'daemon' while ntpdate is a one time call and run tool. ntpd is called to run using /etc/init.d/ntpd and it's configuration file is /etc/ntp.conf. ntpd takes some time to get in sync with other time servers you configured to use. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl Sirendipity 17:13:27 up 2:28, 3 users, 0.22, 0.11, 0.13 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]