[ale] ntp for debian workstation

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 14:30:15 EDT 2007


Well, according to http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ntpdate
you're right. I'm pretty sure my clock stayed synced when I was using
ntpdate with Debian, though. Maybe I had ntp installed after all.
Oops.

On 7/17/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> ntpdate periodically checks a for a new delta?  That's news to me.  I
> thought you'd have to cron it if you want that.  I run the ntpd not to
> service other clients but rather so that it regularly checks the time
> servers to be sure time doesn't drift.


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