On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:50:23AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> It doesn't hurt anything to run "ntpdate" with the network down. The
> default is to try every peer in "/etc/ntp.conf", and that takes about
> two minutes per peer to timeout when there is no connectivity. If
> that's too long, or too short, you can add a "-t timeout" option to
> "ntpdate_flags" in "/etc/rc.conf".

I add "&" character at the end of the line with ntpdate command, so it runs
in the background and do not lock the machine when the network is down.


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