Set system time via ntpdate // get rid of daemons!

I don’t like to have daemons listening on the systems I am responsible for. This is the reason why I check periodically all systems with netstat -tulpen to see what processes are actually listening, look if they are needed and may be bound to localhost only.

I used to set the system time via ntpd, but many years ago I switched to a simple cron job that runs ntpdate. This is good enough for all systems that don’t depend on milliseconds and smooth time shift etc. I was able to remove ntpd from almost all servers. My cron job looks like this:

## ntpdate Cron Job
 
# Environment Settings
MAILTO=root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 
# Job Definition
*/30 * * * *  root  /usr/sbin/ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org > /tmp/ntpdate.prt 2>&1

prego

/me... prego!

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