Re: ntpdate steps 86400 seconds

K.Dinh.P wrote:

"John Pettitt" <jpp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:433CE24A.3040305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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K.Dinh.P wrote:


I have a question concerning ntpdate. I synchronize to a timeserver using
crontab with ntpdate v4.1.1. The syslog is shown below:




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Why are you using ntpdate instead of ntpd?



Beacuse the precision with ntpd is too large on the single board hardware I´m using.




Then look in the sntp subdirectory for a much smaller program. While sntp lacks many of the features of ntpd, it should be far superior to ntpdate and cron.

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