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

[Henry House]

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On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:49:57AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:
> 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...
>=20
> Don't you mean a small amount?  From
> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/ntpdate.html:
>=20
>     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.

Er, yes. Thanks.

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Henry House
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