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- Note that ntpdate is run during system startup. If you specify
- servers that are not reachable at boot time, you'll have to wait for
- ntpdate to time out looking for them. In this case, you might want to
- consider editing /etc/init.d/ntpdate to comment out the invocation
- there, and add a fragment to your ppp/isdn/whatever startup scripts
- instead.
-
- Also, note that ntpdate is *not* really intended to be used by servers with
- good network connectivity. The 'ntp' package, which provides a persistent
- daemon that does a better job of keeping system time than even a cron'ed
- invocation of ntpdate, is a better choice for systems with good network
- connectivity. It may be useful to also have ntpdate on systems that run
- ntp, so that the clock is warped to approximately the right time at boot
- before ntp is launched, but there are options to ntpd that can be added to
- the init.d script for the ntp package that can accomplish much the same
- thing.
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