how to use "ntpd" to emulate "ntpdate"?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 30.01.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 17:03:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> 
> > Hi Robert,
> > 
> > > is there a way to have that sync take place immediately
> > > using "ntpd", rather than waiting for the next sync operation, to 
> > > more closely emulate the behaviour of ntpdate?
> > > 
> > >   or am i misreading the man page?
> > 
> > The man page also mentions the option iburst that needs to be specified
> > for this to work. Never tested this, as my firewall is not that mobile
> > :) . If that doesn't work you could try setting minpoll to a very low
> > number.
> 
> 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.
> 
> rday

I may misunderstand this discussion, but ntpd is a 'daemon' while
ntpdate is a one time call and run tool.

ntpd is called to run using /etc/init.d/ntpd and it's configuration file
is /etc/ntp.conf. ntpd takes some time to get in sync with other time
servers you configured to use.

Alexander


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