Ntpdate vs rdate

[DaCalebMan]

Hello once again,

I have had strange clock issues such as time always being one hour late, and NTPD to stop and start again leaving me at a non-responsive terminal when I switch from a Desktop user to the Administrator. So... I have resulted the answer to these clock issues being a question...

WHICH ONE KICKS BUTT! Ntpdate or Rdate...

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[Rubberman]

I'm not sure that it makes much difference, though ntpdate is deprecated and should be replaced with ntpd, which is the standard network time protocol tool.

[D-cat]

Which sucks because I like the simplicity of ntpdate... you run it and it sets the clock. ntpd (user invoked with sntp) tries to account for your clock drift. This can potentially cause it to set some whacky numbers for the clock offset. There's ways to deal with it, but one shouldn't have to IMO.

[Rubberman]

Which sucks because I like the simplicity of ntpdate... you run it and it sets the clock. ntpd (user invoked with sntp) tries to account for your clock drift. This can potentially cause it to set some whacky numbers for the clock offset. There's ways to deal with it, but one shouldn't have to IMO.

Goes to show, that not all "good ideas" are good ideas... In any case, I leave ntpd running as a service on my system (CentOS 5) and haven't had any issues with it. Seems to work well for me.