christophe barbé on Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:30:14 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Time/Date problem 

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:30:56PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote:
> 
> The main drawback of rdate is that it does not keep track of and correct
> the drift in the system clock.  The ntp daemon, once it's been run long
> enough, figures out how much your clock typically drifts and adjusts for
> you automatically.  I suppose you could instead create scripts to run
> ntpd when you connect and stop it when you disconnect, too.

Yes simply make a link to the on in /etc/init.d which comes with the
package. But I believe that ntpd can run all the time (on and off line).

Christophe

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