[nycbug-talk] sys/systm.h

Andy Kosela akosela at andykosela.com
Tue Apr 28 04:02:22 EDT 2009


Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

> fwiw - i think you could also use: ntpdate -B my.ntp.server for force  
> the system to get back in sync.  the ntpdate man page recommends using  
> -b for init scripts (/etc/rc.local for example).

I would be careful with issuing 'ntpdate -b' as it uses settimeofday(2)
on production servers.  I remember crashing dovecot and mySQL this way.

--Andy



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