Rodolfo J. Paiz kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 13. huhtikuuta 2004 02:27): > Not quite true. "ntpdate" checks the time on an NTP server > just once, Wrong. ntpdate queries each server given on the command line multiple times, 4 by default but this can be changed with the "-p" parameter. Use "ntpdate -d" to see how this works. > and then forcefully changes the local system time > to whatever result it got from the server, regardless of what > that result was and with no sanity checks. The results from time servers are checked by a subset of filtering routines used by ntpd and small (<0.5s) clock changes are done by "slewing" the clock, not by instantly jumping the clock. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
