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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?</H1>
    <B>Johnny A. Solbu</B> 
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    <I>Mon Feb 11 13:57:52 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On Monday 11. February 2013 12.19, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
&gt;<i> Use of ntpdate in crontab is a very bad idea because a great number of  users 
</I>&gt;<i> can make a burst of activity and a saturation of servers.
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Then don't use it in crontab.

&gt;<i> ntpd is more accurate with few requests and can also setup the clock.
</I>&gt;<i> ntpd makes requests after a long time. More the clock is adjusted, more it 
</I>&gt;<i> waits before a new request.
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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.

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