How is ntpd data used -

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 07:12, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Markku Kolkka wrote:
> 
> >Bob Goodwin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 6. 
> >marraskuuta 2004 11:44):
> >  
> >
> >>I run a script that does:
> >>
> >>service ntpd restart
> >>
> >>ntpq -p
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You should insert a few minutes of delay between those two calls 
> >to let the ntp daemon to work. 
> >  
> >
> Yes I do that -
> 
> ~  cat ./tsync
> 
> service ntpd restart
> 
> sleep 5
> 
> ntpq -p
> 
> 

That is actually a sleep of 5 seconds, not a few minutes.