NTP support available?

[Natanael Copa]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 16:46 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:

> I'm still unclear on what ntp does that rdate doesn't.  (I thought rdate was
> using ntp...)

rdate will set the clock once. If hardware clock is bad, the clock will
skew in the long run.

ntp will keep the clock correct, trying to find out how much the
hardware clock is wrong and adjust all the way.

You could run rdate in a cronjob but sometimes thats not good enough.

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Natanael Copa