Re: how to use "ntpd" to emulate "ntpdate"?

From: Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz_at_uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: 01/30/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:16:03 +0100

    Am Fr, den 30.01.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 17:03:
    > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
    >
    > > Hi Robert,
    > >
    > > > is there a way to have that sync take place immediately
    > > > using "ntpd", rather than waiting for the next sync operation, to
    > > > more closely emulate the behaviour of ntpdate?
    > > >
    > > > or am i misreading the man page?
    > >
    > > The man page also mentions the option iburst that needs to be specified
    > > for this to work. Never tested this, as my firewall is not that mobile
    > > :) . If that doesn't work you could try setting minpoll to a very low
    > > number.
    >
    > but the "iburst" option, as useful as it might be, is meant to be
    > placed in the config file /etc/ntp.conf. i was looking for an explicit
    > command-line option so that i could sync the system time *without*
    > having to mess with the config file first.
    >
    > as deprecated as "ntpdate" might be, it at least had the virtue of
    > being self-contained.
    >
    > rday

    I may misunderstand this discussion, but ntpd is a 'daemon' while
    ntpdate is a one time call and run tool.

    ntpd is called to run using /etc/init.d/ntpd and it's configuration file
    is /etc/ntp.conf. ntpd takes some time to get in sync with other time
    servers you configured to use.

    Alexander 

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