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From: jdb@robigo.winternet.com (John Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is the secret to getting ntpdate to automatically fix system time?
Date: 23 Jun 1996 09:08:55 -0500
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In-reply-to: vccubed@phoenix.net's message of Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:33:27 GMT
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In article <4q9dl9$phm@uhura.phoenix.net> vccubed@phoenix.net (Keith Veseleny) writes:
I have setup ntpdate="apple.com" in my sysconfig file, however, it
doesn't appear to update the machines time and this bios loses almost
10 minutes a day. Do I need to perform a cron job or some other task
to get this to work?
That's exactly it. If you read the ntpdate man page you'll see that
it says:
...
Typically, ntpdate can be
inserted in the /etc/rc.local startup up script to set the
time of day at boot time and/or can be run from
time-to-time via cron(8). Note that ntpdate's reliability
...
The man page mentions cron 3 other times.
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