On Wed, 20 May 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Manar Hussain wrote:
>
> > You probably want to set xntpd up and only run ntpdate on restart of that.
> > xntp will normally be a *lot* more graceful about shifting your clock in
> > line and it's not too hard to set it up so that it only sync to a time
> > server when you are online and free coasts otherwise.
>
> Hmm... I'll have a fiddle around with that, but it might not be needed
> now I've applied Philip's fixes. I suppose it might create confusing
> entries in other logs, but I would have thought that would happen
> however the time was adjusted.
>
> Cheers,
You could try ntpdate -B which slews the clock rather then steping it...
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