You might check to see if there's anything useful in the CJCW CI variable to
differentiate between ntpdate success or failure.

If CJCW won't do it, you'll have to redirect the ntpdate output to a disk file
and then parse it to determine success or failure.

- Mark B.

Simonsen, Larry wrote:

> We use the ntpdate program from Mark Bixby to adjust our clock once a day to
> synchronize.  Sometimes the networking people will turn off the ntp service
> on the routers and hence it fails to find a timeserver.  I know we can use
> multiple ones to get the time but is there a method of knowing that it found
> a timeserver?  Is there a variable set for this case?

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