ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 43

[Wim Bertels]

> Tim Frost wrote:
> 
> > ntpdate is used only when you BOOT the system.

an easy thing u can do is:
right click on the upper richt corner of your screen,
and their synchronise your clock to a time server (ntp server),
u only have to click..

> 
> Well, no.  On my system it's run whenever I up a network interface.
> > 
> > The program that performs regular time synchronisation services is the
> > NTP server, /usr/bin/ntpd, which is in the separate package, ntp-server.
> > That program runs as a daemon, which means that it is doing its job in
> > the background.
> 
> That seems counter to what the poster requested.  Why run a permanent daemon
> if what you want is to just check your time weekly.  Run ntpdate from
> cron.weekly, instead.  Most desktop users don't have the need to have their
> clocks as perfectly synchronized as ntpd will keep them.  As long as my
> alarm daemon notifies me within 30 seconds of the real time, it's good
> enough for me.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 20:19 -0500, 'Forum Post wrote:
> >> is there not another option (that makes more sense to me) to have the
> >> sync happen only once a week or somesuch?  And when it does, in the
> >> background so everything is not waiting on it?
> 
> cron would accomplish that.  Plus, if you're running anacron, it would also
> get run (asynchronously) after each boot.  
> -- 
> derek
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