Time Sync

[Christopher Ness]

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 *.

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[root at 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
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