Re: [gentoo-dev] ntpd and ntpdate

[Andy Arbon]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>>Is there a neat way to just run ntpdate at system initialisation? I

> This is allready included in the ntp scripts. Just edit the configuration
> file. Btw. ntpd is not a necesarilly server. It takes care that the time
> stays correct. Check the ntpd.conf file for restricting the server
> capabilities.
>
Thanks for the advice. This still isn't really what I was after. I want 
a really lightweight way of making sure that my machines are in 
reasonable sync, but I'm not really worried about it enough to want to 
have another daemon process hanging around looking after the time.

What I've done is write a 2 line bash script for /etc/init.d/ which just 
runs ntpdate once using the ntpdate configurations in /etc/conf.d/ntpd, 
which should be sufficient (Copied below for the terminally lazy ;) )

As an aside: Does anyone know what will happen the next time the package 
containing /etc/init.d/* is updated? Will it remove my script or is that 
protected?

Cheers,

Andy

#!/bin/bash
# A script to one off launch ntpdate

if [ $1 == 'start' ]; then
     source /etc/conf.d/ntpd;
     $NTPDATE_CMD $NTPDATE_OPTS;
fi



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