On Tuesday 27 July 2004 7:20 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > ntpdate drags your machine kicking and screaming into compliance with > your NTP servers RIGHT NOW, while ntpd KEEPS it current. If ntpd has to > pull the machine into compliance, it does it just a little bit at a time > so it may take quite a while for it to get it synchronized. Once the > clock is synched, ntpd will keep it synched. Wow! Thanks for that wonderful explanation Rick. Now I understand it. I'll definetely run ntpdate at boot and will run ntpd as a daemon! Thanks Rick and Ben!
