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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