system clock is too slow
Michael Hogsett
michael.hogsett at sri.com
Tue Jul 27 23:59:54 UTC 2004
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.
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