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Subject: Re: How to update the hosts clock as part of cron daily?
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If you don't mind installing ports/packages I recommend net/openntpd
(http://www.openntpd.org/) from the OpenBSD guys rather than base ntpd.
Much simpler. The configuration file has only a few directives. It also
has an interesting constraints feature.