Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:31:43 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Flag for NTP slew only? Message-ID: <20000517163143.M86725@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <00May18.061829est.115213@border.alcanet.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:18:28AM %2B1000 References: <B500F74C6527D311B61F0000C0DF5ADC263081@valhall.ign.se> <9760.958147629@brown.pfcs.com> <00May18.061829est.115213@border.alcanet.com.au>
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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) -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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