[Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?

Mon Feb 11 13:57:52 CET 2013

On Monday 11. February 2013 12.19, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
+> Use of ntpdate in crontab is a very bad idea because a great number of  users 
+> can make a burst of activity and a saturation of servers.
+
+Then don't use it in crontab.
+
+> ntpd is more accurate with few requests and can also setup the clock.
+> ntpd makes requests after a long time. More the clock is adjusted, more it 
+> waits before a new request.
+
+I have a few setups where running an ntp daemon is undesired, yet I need to periodically manually set the clock.
+I have two laptops which is off most of the time, and when I do use them I don't always have a network connection. So I need to set the clock manually using ntpdate when I do have a connection.
+
+If it disappears I will miss it, and most likely look for a replacement, if there is one.
+
+-- 
+Johnny A. Solbu
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