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From: ken@HPSDLZ.SDD.HP.COM (Ken Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: ntpdate for HP 9000/850?
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Date: 12 Feb 91 16:13:13 GMT
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>    Does an ntpdate for HP 9000/850 exist?  Has someone ported the code?
> For a lark, I tried the xntp stuff located at louie.udel.edu, but, of
> course, these little BSD things kept popping out of everywhere.

You can find the whole xntpd distribution ready for HP-UX 7.0 on host
columbia.edu.

>    I would like to run ntpdate every hour from crontab just to keep things
> pretty close in time to our local time servers.  Thanks for any
> information.

I think its probably less of a load long term to just go ahead and run xntpd
all the time or just run ntpdate once a day ... just my opinion.

  -- Ken