Jorge Fábregas wrote:
I've been using ntp for a while..but I've been using ntpdate. I have it on root's crontab and it runs like 6 times a day. My question is: what's the difference..or is there any advantage running a full-time daemon(ntpd) vs the ntpdate command?
ntpdate will synchronize the clock once (and based on your above statement about your crontab, every 4 hours). ntpd will attempt to keep the clock synchronized continuously.
