ntpdate

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:18:53 +0000 (GMT)
Patrick Dupre wrote:

> Do you just recommand to not run ntpdate during the boot or there
> is other alternatives ?

Actually, the ntpdate service isn't there anymore in fedora 14.
(And the ntp authors declared it dead many years ago). When setting
up ntp now there is a option in the system-config-date tool
to "speed up initial sync" which enables an "iburst" option
in the ntp.conf file (whatever iburst is :-).