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Keeping servers and workstations on time using cron and ntpdate

By Eric Thern On October 3, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I’m a fan of having all my computers report the same time, especially when I have to cross reference logs on different servers and require the times to all match up.

I’ve used rdate to update time in the past, but lately have been using ntpdate, which seems to be quite a bit better.

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