ntpdate on boot problem

[Carl Johnson]

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

> On 05/11/2011 22:19, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab:
>>>
>>> 0       10      *       *       */2     /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart
>> 
>> I have something similar in my crontab which is not exactly what I
>> need.  I want to make sure that the clock is set at every boot because
>> I'm using this as a kerberos server.  If the clock is not set properly
>> at boot, kerberos will not work properly until the nightly cron jobs
>> are run and the clock is set then.  I need everything working at boot.
>>  I can't have a window of problems between boot and midnight or
>> whenever cron runs ntpdate.
>
> crontabs have this handy '@reboot' syntax...  It's all explained in
> crontab(5).

Just be aware that 'Run once, at startup', means when 'cron' starts, not
just when the system boots, unless they have changed it recently.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org