[nycbug-talk] sys/systm.h

[Pete Wright]

On 28-Apr-09, at 1:02 AM, Andy Kosela wrote:

> 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.
>
oh yea - good point.  not something you'd want to call from rc.local  
eh? :)

-p