On Saturday 12 Nov 2005 19:05, James Knott wrote:
François Pinard wrote:
[Aldrik KLEBER]
this is a very bad idea to put an ntpdate in a crontab because : [...] 2) the time can go back (set from 10:04:57 to 10:01:32), which is critical for mail servers,
I'm curious. How or why would it be critical?
I'm not sure about mail servers, but the post office wants to ensure snail mail is properly aged, before delivery. ;-)
Yea i just wish they would not do it with my darn credit card bills that get me greif off of the bank then and more whingeing about late payments .. pete . -- If Bill Gates had gotten LAID at High School do YOU think there would be a Microsoft ? Of course NOT ! You gotta spend a lot of time at your school Locker stuffing underware up your ass to think , I am going to take on the worlds Computer Industry -------:heard on Cyber Radio.:------- AFFA