Running ntpdate from cron.daily

[Colin Law]

On 18 July 2011 08:17, Stephen Kuhn <yank.down.under at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 07:20 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> My question has nothing to do with the ntp daemon ntpd, which I think
>> is what you are referring to.  The Plug PC only has 512MB ram and a
>> 4GB SD.  I do not wish the overheads of additional disk space, ram or
>> processor of installing and running ntpd.  Synchronising the clock
>> daily using ntpdate is sufficient.  My question is merely whether a
>> script in cron.daily should start with the #! shell line.
>>
>> Colin
>
> So sorry, Colin!
> Yes, you start the script with:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> ...and the a nice "exit" at the end generally...sorry mate!

OK, many thanks.  I will go and update the wiki.
My reply was not meant to seem ungrateful, just clarifying my
question. I could have phrased my reply better.

Colin