system clock is too slow

[Michael Hogsett]

Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> I've been using ntp for a while..but I've been using ntpdate. I have it on 
> root's crontab and it runs like 6 times a day. My question is: what's the 
> difference..or is there any advantage running a full-time daemon(ntpd) vs the 
> ntpdate command?

ntpdate will synchronize the clock once (and based on your above 
statement about your crontab, every 4 hours).  ntpd will attempt to keep 
the clock synchronized continuously.