[ntp:questions] Re: ntpdate steps 86400 seconds
Bob Beers
bob.beers at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 13:33:52 UTC 2005
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>
> >>>>>I have a question concerning ntpdate. I synchronize to a timeserver
> >>>>>using
> >>>>>crontab with ntpdate v4.1.1. The syslog is shown below:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>[snip]
>
Here is a possible, simple solution to the OP's problem:
Would it be enough to modify your cronjob to only run ntpdate at
say 19/39/59 minutes after each hour, rather than every minute?
IOW, just avoid the 00:00 - 00:10 time period when your time
server (allegedly/apparently) sends bad time.
-Bob
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