[PLUG] debian and ntpd / ntpdate

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Debian says that ntpd doesn't start automatically nor even provide an
init.d script because the maintainer can't find a solution that works
sufficiently broadly.  Result, "apt-get install ntp" doesn't have
quite the intended behavior.  Sadly, the distro doesn't include any
sample scripts for init.d/, either.

Rather than spend the time to make a robust /etc/init.d/ntp-client, I
just added the following to my root crontab:

    23 4 * * *    /etc/init.d/ntpdate start 2>&1 >/dev/null

Does this seem somehow to be a bad move?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

-- 
 Jeff

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