Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/8/2011 7:36 AM, Jose Celestino wrote: >> On Dom, 2011-05-08 at 11:07 +0100, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: >>> OK, >>> >>> So what you people say is : >>> >>> 1. Run "ntpdate" during startup only once >>> 2. After that, keep time with ntpd >>> >>> Right ? >>> >> >> Right, that ensures that time is correct (ntpdate run at startup) and >> that it is kept correct without the clock going back (ntp running as >> daemon). > > This is not correct. You're assuming that ntpd doesn't perform sanity > checks on the system time when the daemon starts, which is not the > case.
The sanity check may be disabled with -g in which case using ntpdate/sntp/ntpd -q at start up becomes pointless. /Per Jessen, Zürich
