Ntpd problems FC13

[Marius Feraru]

Phil Meyer <pmeyer at 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.