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Re: Strange behavior of netdate and cron



Sorry friends,

We found that the problem is due to a wrong crontab entry. 
It runs fine with netdate! We have no problem now!


Vincent


kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:22:47AM +0800, Tam,  Vincent wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We put the netdate command in cron job to regular sync with NIST clock
> > at time-a.nist.gov, however it only run once and never run again.
> > What would be the cause of the problem?
> >
> > Our servers are running Debian 2.1 with latest updates fetched
> > from apt-get.
> 
> What's the crontab line, and why do you think it's running only once?
> 
> My own crontab entry is below.  Note that stdout is discarded:
> 
>         # 28 */6 * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.css.gov 1>/dev/null
> 
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