Phil Meyer <pmeyer(a)themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
This is done by adding the -x argument to:
/etc/sysconfig/ntpd
[...]
With -x in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd, the ntpd startup script will first run
ntpdate against a clock in /etc/ntp/step-tickers, if any, or from the
general pool if not.
That's no longer true for Fedora.
Since Feb 29 2008 there's a "ntpdate" service for this purpose.
Newer hardware has WAY better clocks than when ntp was written, and
thus
the default removal of the initial ntpdate run.
Not an argument.