Re: network time settings - was Re: Decrypt Passwords

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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:29:36AM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've looked at NTP and rdate and was wondering 
> 
> a) which people thought was best (NTP's supposed to be more accurate I 
> believe), 

ntp.  rdate updates the time at a single point of time.  In other words,
if you run rdate in a cron job every hour, your time is accurate only
once per hour.  ntp is continuous.

> b) if anyone knows of good public servers that I can use as a root, and

http://www.ntp.org

> c) if using NTP how to I use it. (using rdate I would probably just
> put 'rdate -s <server>' as a cron job)

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-dateconfig.html

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