On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Daniel C. Sinclair wrote: > I often plug this laptop in to unknown stuff (or mirror/span ports or > ethernet taps) and run tcpdump so I don't want to run any daemons that > generate traffic. It's a little netbook and I use it for network > troubleshooting only - it isn't a normal laptop setup. My main laptop > does run ntpd all the time though. > > I guess I will just use ntpd from now on and manually stop it if > needed. Of course, with ntpd_flags="-s" in my rc.conf.local I won't > be able to start it again without jumping the clock.
... or you could add rdate to rc.local or write a custom rc.d script for yourself.
