[rhn-users] Re: NTP

[Alfred Hovdestad]

Hi.

First, this doesn't really belong on the RHN list.  This list is for 
issues dealing with the Red Hat up2date service (RHN aka Red Hat Network).

Secondly, you can run ntpdate out of a cron job to make hourly (or 
daily) connections to an NTP server.

    Alfred Hovdestad
    University of Saskatchewan



Nick Baronian wrote:
> Oops, the -p tcp was a typo on my part.
> What I am really getting at is if there is a way to have ntp work like
> some other client apps.  I want to sync to redhat's time server but I
> don't want to have a constant connection.  Kinda like if I was ssh'ing
> or ftp'ing into a server.  The server would be running the ssh/ftp
> service and have port 22 or 21 open but my machine would open a random
> non-priv port get my payload and then close it.
> Is NTP different because the polling is so frequent?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick