Carlos E. R. wrote:
The script call "ntp start" calls ntpdate, and then it starts the "ntpd" daemon, which remains running till you stop it or halt the computer. Remember it needs a permanent network connection.
Perhaps as a last comment - ntpd does't actually need a permanent network connection. When it has one, it'll try to sync with whichever server you have specified, and when it doesn't have a connection, you can configure it to pretend the local clock is good enough (I think this is the default SUSE config).
And it use the "/etc/ntp.conf" configuration file, so it is far easier to call than ntpdate.
Actually, I think the advantage of ntpdate is that you can use without a fully configured ntpd. "ntpdate <server> works fine regardless of what you've got in ntp.conf. /Per Jessen, Zürich