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Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!



On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 18:51:24 -0500, N. Thomas wrote:
> If you want to keep your clock in sync use ntpd -- that's what it was
> designed for.

This is what is used on the machines at my lab, but the daemon
sometimes dies. So, I wouldn't say that this is a good solution,
unless there is a way to restart ntpd automatically (by cron?)
when it dies.

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