how to use "ntpd" to emulate "ntpdate"?

Michael Fratoni mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Sat Jan 31 16:03:32 UTC 2004


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On Saturday 31 January 2004 10:14 am, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 20:37 1/30/2004, you wrote:
[...]
> Lest others read Michael's post as suggesting that an ntpdate run every
> two hours is a good thing for a /server/, I thought I should add some
> comments. Most servers should run ntpd in order to keep time
> synchronized as closely as possible, and most organizations should run
> at least one ntpd server to which their computers can synchronize.
> Please note that, in Michael's example, he is synchronizing to an
> /internal/ server so hitting it every two hours is just fine.

Correct, mine is an internal server. Syncing to a public server every two 
hours would not be a good thing. Sadly, using ntp -q in place of ntpdate 
is even worse, it appears to generate far more network traffic. 

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