The don't provide NTP and then they discourage us from cron'ing rdate. What do they think? I have nothing else meaningful to do, but sit here and periodically do
Hey - chill out. NTP is on the way. We all know that rsh/cron/rdate is brain-damaged.
Besides, they don't discourage us from cron'ing rdate. It's just pretty dumb to run any time-independent process at the top of the hour, let alone rdate.
Nick Hilliard Ireland On-Line System Operations