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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: where is cron, at and rdate?
Date: 30 Apr 94 09:02:16
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: guy@dearg.cuillin.org.uk's message of 29 Apr 1994 20:25:41 GMT

>On my BSD/386 system the cron is by Paul Vixie, BSDi had at re-written for
>them and there is no rdate.

There is however an "ntpdate", which uses a different protocol (it depends on
ntpd or xntpd running on the server, rather than using the inetd-based "time"
or "daytime" protocols.
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Paul Vixie
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