Re: newsyslog running twice with $W1DO5 as when field <- with solution

[Simon Farnsworth <openbsd_(_at_)_farnz_(_dot_)_org_(_dot_)_uk>]

On Monday 15 August 2005 21:16, Bill wrote:
> I think the problem is that I also have ntpdate scheduled at 5am... so
> the one second adjustment must have caused cron to run the newsyslog
> again.  (the entries below show the second running one second earlier
> than the first)
>
Out of interest, why are you running ntpdate instead of ntpd? In theory, ntpd
should provide you with equally good or even better time updating (even in
the presence of things like network connections that are rarely up), and
won't trigger things like the same cron job running twice.
--
Simon Farnsworth

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