Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:15:33PM -0500, Christopher Ness wrote:
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:09, Phil Hannent wrote:
I also am not bothered about running a time server, just really want itYou could create a cron job in root and have it run daily. Here's my
to sync on boot or every hour would be good enough.
cron entry. This runs every day at noon, to do this hourly change the
12 to a *.
00 12 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u -s -t 20 ntp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca....
It's not clear to me why you would want to do this when configuring ntpd is so easy -- just run redhat-config-date and check "enable network time protocol".
If you want time synchronization on a dial-up connection (where you aren't connected all the time), then there are ntp alternatives that do a good job for that: chrony (http://chrony.sunsite.dk/) for example. Just having npdate change the clock periodically isn't all that good -- note that ntp (and chrony, I expect) use adjtime(2) to speed up or slow down time to keep the clock adjusted.
jch
