On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> <snip>
> 
> With performance like that, you're no better off running "ntpd", than
> running "ntpdate" periodically.

Well, running ntp as a background process is (in my mind) better than
starting a cron job to run ntpdate.  At least this way, you avoid all
the process creation overhead.

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