Time Sync
John Haxby
jch at thehaxbys.co.uk
Tue Mar 2 11:16:28 UTC 2004
Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:15:33PM -0500, Christopher Ness wrote:
>
>
>>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 *.
>>
>>
>>00 12 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u -s -t 20 ntp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca....
>>
>>
It's not clear to me why you would want to do this when configuring ntpd
is so easy -- just run redhat-config-date and check "enable network time
protocol".
If you want time synchronization on a dial-up connection (where you
aren't connected all the time), then there are ntp alternatives that do
a good job for that: chrony (http://chrony.sunsite.dk/) for example.
Just having npdate change the clock periodically isn't all that good --
note that ntp (and chrony, I expect) use adjtime(2) to speed up or slow
down time to keep the clock adjusted.
jch
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