[ntp:questions] ntpd -qg sleeping processes

RICCARDO ric.castellani at alice.it
Fri Dec 31 16:09:06 UTC 2010


On 31 Dic, 15:49, Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> wrote:
> RICCARDO wrote:
>
> > I scheduled process in crontab on all machines:
> > 00 05 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpd -qg
>
> > I can't understand where it was problem because if now I run ntpd -qg
> > I works fine.
> > But there is timeout fot ntpd ? I have no logs for this date !
>
> > What do you think ?
>
> I think that running ntpd from cron every night as a replacement for
> ntpdate is pretty stupid. :-(
>
> I assume you have a very good reason for why you cannot simply let ntpd
> run normally?
>
> Terje
>
> --
> - <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

man of ntpd suggests to run ntpd -qg in client




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