system clock is too slow

Jorge Fábregas fabregasj at prtc.net
Tue Jul 27 23:30:00 UTC 2004


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!





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