Time Problem in 5.0

[Toomas Aas]

> ntpdate has two nice features:
> 
> 1 - It runs in under a second.  This is useful during the startup
>     sequence, so you know all of your daemons come up with the right
>     time.  "ntpd -q" took 3 and 5 1/2 minutes to return my prompt on
>     tests on two different machines.

Sounds like you might search the ntp.conf manpage for 'iburst'.
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