Re: NIST time
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:40:47PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Sam Varghese wrote:
>
> > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same
> > guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig
> > it is simple and works well.
>
> Is ntpdate not simple, or does it not work well? What caused you to want
> to switch? I use ntpdate and it seems to do the job nicely, but if there
> is a real advantage to chrony, I might give it a try.
ntpdate always complains that it cannot find the time servers. the funny
thing is it runs well on a workstation of mine but not on a server. chrony runs
without complaint. i'm not a techie but it looks like chrony needs less
system resources to run as well.
sam
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