Re: NTP Server

[Dan Ritter <dsr@tao.merseine.nu>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:27:21AM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> I have started time server, ran ntpdate command. The time matched.
> Several weeks later the time is off by a little more than a minute.
> What is controlling how often time server updated by the ntpdate
> command?

ntpdate is a one-time operation. You fire it off, typically in
the boot process, and then you don't run it again. I suppose you
could put it in a cronjob.

ntp-server does continuous synchronization. That's what you
really want to be running.

-dsr-



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