On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:09, Phil Hannent wrote:
I also am not bothered about running a time server, just really want it to sync on boot or every hour would be good enough.
You could create a cron job in root and have it run daily. Here's my cron entry. This runs every day at noon, to do this hourly change the 12 to a *.
================================================== [root@therock bin]# cat crontab.txt SHELL=/bin/bash MAILTO=root HOME=/root LANG=en_US
00 12 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u -s -t 20 ntp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca ntp1.cmc.ec.gc.ca tick.utoronto.ca time.chu.nrc.ca time.nrc.ca timelord.uregina.ca ===================================================
You install this as root by typing at the console
# crontab crontab.txt
You can verify that it is set by typing...
# crontab -l
Cheers, Chris