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Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > ntpdate is bad and should never be used.  I think it has
 > > even been officially deprecated and will be removed in the
 > > future (at least the manpage says so).
 > 
 > ntpdate is perfect for the initial sync before ntpd or any daemon 
 > has started.

I'm sorry I have to disagree.  ntpdate is evil and
has to die.  :-)

Seriously, ntpd should be run with the -g option.
It does the same as running ntpdate once (i.e.
performing one initial step if necessary), but
with much better accuracy.  It completely replaces
ntpdate.

 > I beleive it's even made for that purpose: ntpd will 
 > refuse to work if the clock skew is too large at startup.

Use ntpd -g.  ntpdate is a left-over from ancient
versions of the xntpd software suite, and it only
exists for historical reasons.

Best regards
   Oliver

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