Milter-greylist

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:39:24AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> ntpdate is bad and should never be used.  I think it has
> even been officially deprecated and will be removed in the
> future (at least the manpage says so).

ntpdate is perfect for the initial sync before ntpd or any daemon 
has started. I beleive it's even made for that purpose: ntpd will 
refuse to work if the clock skew is too large at startup.

But I agree using ntpdate with cron is a bad idea if you have your
system started. Many apps assume that (PID, time) is a unique identifier
for the system, which assume the time never goes backward.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
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