Re: method to sync time?

[Mike Wahle <mwahle@luminate.com>]

"rdate" should work as well.  Although I have no idea
the advantages of ntpdate vs rdate ... Anyone have 
insight on that ?

--mike


David Terrell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:43:16PM +0200, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote:
> > Timo Trinks <trinks@elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> >
> > > 00 12   * * *   /usr/local/sbin/ntpdate <your-preferred-time-server>
> > >
> > > might be the alternative you're looking for...
> >
> > Only if you accept gaps in time or even time stepping backwards.
> 
> you can use ntpdate -B.
> 
> And you should probably sync against multiple servers in case one
> is bad.
> 
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