* Ulrich Roth <Roth@impact.de> [2003-02-11 09:18 +0100]:
nah, you should use ntpdate instead of netdate: "netdate" will set ANY time it receives and "ntpdate" will validate the time and moves the clock slowly to the right time No, ntpdate gets the time from a time server and sets the clock to the time it just received from the server, no matter how much the difference is.
ntpdate will slew the clock as well, when called with -B. The main difference is the protocol used (netdate:time, ntpdate:ntp). If you're out for security and accuracy, you shouldn't use the old time protocol anyway. For a discussion of the rdate/netdate/nettime/w32time/ntpdate/ntpd tools, see http://www.jfranken.de/homepages/johannes/vortraege/ntpd.en.html -- Johannes Franken Professional unix/network development mailto:jfranken@jfranken.de http://www.jfranken.de/