[vox-tech] rdate servers and apt-get for redhat

[Rod Roark]

On Sunday 15 December 2002 10:09 am, Henry House wrote:
> One more suggestion: try ntpdate, a daemonless version of NTP. It will =
not
> abruptly change the system time like rdate if the local clock is off by=
 a
> large amount...

Don't you mean a small amount?  From
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/ntpdate.html:

    Time adjustments are made by ntpdate in one of two ways.=20
    If ntpdate determines the clock is in error more than=20
    0.5 second it will simply step the time by calling the=20
    system settimeofday() routine. If the error is less than=20
    0.5 seconds, it will slew the time by calling the system=20
    adjtime() routine. The latter technique is less=20
    disruptive and more accurate when the error is small,=20
    and works quite well when ntpdate is run by cron every=20
    hour or two.

Cheers,

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/