-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 January 2004 08:21 pm, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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. I missed the start of this thread, but does "ntpdate <server>" not do what you want? I run it here from a cron job every 2 hours, seems to work fine. $ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) $ tail -1 /etc/crontab 30 */2 * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate tuxfan > /dev/null $ ntpdate tuxfan 30 Jan 21:29:05 ntpdate[28196]: adjust time server 192.168.0.3 offset - -0.000253 sec - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGxTfn/07WoAb/SsRAlOHAJ9wpghS9GPctShZCt+2cCasO6NoRgCeKHVN Zi6/zkAJ6qBiyC1gygQ8AIA= =XXAs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
