how to use "ntpd" to emulate "ntpdate"?

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Friday 30 January 2004 08:21 pm, 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.

I missed the start of this thread, but does "ntpdate <server>" not do what 
you want? I run it here from a cron job every 2 hours, seems to work 
fine.

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)

$ tail -1 /etc/crontab
30 */2 * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate  tuxfan > /dev/null

$ ntpdate tuxfan
30 Jan 21:29:05 ntpdate[28196]: adjust time server 192.168.0.3 offset 
- -0.000253 sec

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