Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

[Jon Haugsand <Jon-H.Haugsand@norges-bank.no>]

* christophe barbe
>> Should think that clock synchronization is
>> needed.  Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5
>> second every day.
>
> I don't see how this is related to the hourly cron.

Well, on my RedHat systems I found it simplest to run 'ntpdate -u
SERVER; hwclock --systohw' every hour.

> If you want to avoid computer clocks drift, you should consider proper
> solution such as the one provided by ntp (see the ntp-simple package).

Or 'chrony' as someone else told me.  But thanks anyway.

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