From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 14:33:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zipcode.corp.home.net (zipcode.corp.home.net [24.0.26.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1361137B8B0 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 14:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from manek@ecst.csuchico.edu) Received: from after (shiva-user20.corp.home.net [24.0.8.150]) by zipcode.corp.home.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA05943; Wed, 17 May 2000 14:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Sameer R. Manek" To: "Bill Fumerola" , "Peter Jeremy" , "Harlan Stenn" , Subject: RE: Flag for NTP slew only? Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:26:25 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000517163143.M86725@jade.chc-chimes.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Fumerola > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 1:32 PM > On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:18:28AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > 2) Regular use of ntpdate (eg from cron) to keep the system clock > > fairly close to real time without the overheads of permanently > > running nptd. > > > > Whilst this is less of an issue for modern systems, people may > > still have reasons for not wanting to run ntpd. > > We have reasons for only running ntpdate, and not keeping ntpd running. > > (speaking as the administrator of EFNet's irc.lsl.com) > ntpdate is also useful for people on dialups, 3/4 of the day xntpd would be out of sync anyways, or needlessly calling the isp just to send a few ntp packets. I just manually run ntpdate whenever i remember to, my clock drifts about 10 seconds a month, which is close enough for me. Sameer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message