Someone Said:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a dev Linux box running Redhat 9 on my home LAN and I noticed that 
>the clock has drifted and is now 10 minutes behind.
>Instead of simply resetting it, I'd like this box to sync with a time 
>server.  I was reading about ntpd, but this seems to be a way to set up a 
>machine to be a time server, which is not what I want. It also looks to be 
>way more work than I want to get into.
>
>What is the best way to simply sync with a time server once per day.  Is 
>there a program I can run in a cron job?
>
>Also, what time servers are best to use.  The only one listed in my 
>ntp.conf is clock.redhat.com.  Not that I don't like Redhat, I just would 
>like a couple more.
>
>I don't have X running on this box, since I only SSH into it.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
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Instead of running ntpd, try using ntpdate, which can be used in a crontab.

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ntpdate -b -u pool.ntp.org
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# A list of available servers can be found here:
# http://www.pool.ntp.org/
# A good way to get servers for your machine is:
# netselect -s 3 pool.ntp.org
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