how to use "ntpd" to emulate "ntpdate"?
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Sat Jan 31 01:35:24 UTC 2004
Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> Have yo looked at rdate?
Again, rdate is not the same protocol as ntp and they don't use the
same servers.
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