Re: rdate issue

2007-05-14 Thread Adam Hawes
> I would really recommend against using rdate like this, it jumps the > clock. ntpd skews the clock (makes it run slightly fast or slow until > the time is correct), so you don't miss out on any seconds (which > sometimes skips cron jobs, makes logging more confusing, and can > cause a lot of trou

Re: rdate issue

2007-05-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/05/13 23:06, John Nietzsche wrote: > > */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/rdate -4ncva > > -c corrects for leap seconds > > > */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/rdate -4cva gw | > > and here you do it again i.e

Re: rdate issue

2007-05-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/13 23:06, John Nietzsche wrote: > */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/rdate -4ncva -c corrects for leap seconds > */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/rdate -4cva gw | and here you do it again i.e. you are correcting time coming from a source which is alread

Re: rdate issue

2007-05-13 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/13/07, John Nietzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the other two boxes (lion and etosha) i have: */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/rdate -4cva gw | Everything is working ok except because of those two boxes always have a time about 20/22 seconds after my gateway time, like

Re: rdate issue

2007-05-13 Thread Adam Hawes
> I decided to get the time syncronization for all those boxes. In the > gateway machine, i managed to get the following in crontab: > > */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/rdate -4ncva > ptbtime1.ptb.de | /usr/bin/logger -t NTP > Everything is working ok except because of those tw

Re: rdate issue

2007-05-13 Thread Nick Holland
John Nietzsche wrote: ... > Everything is working ok except because of those two boxes always have > a time about 20/22 seconds after my gateway time, like in the output > for date command: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] date > Sun May 13 23:04:35 BRT 2007 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] date > Sun May 13 23:04:59 BRT

rdate issue

2007-05-13 Thread John Nietzsche
Dear gentleman/madam, i have a home network composed of 1 gateway and two boxes. All of them running openbsd 4.1 of course. I decided to get the time syncronization for all those boxes. In the gateway machine, i managed to get the following in crontab: */5 * * * * /u