Re: ntpd crashes.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:54:50 +0200, Mauro wrote:

> On 11 September 2012 17:32, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

(...)

>>>> You can try a different approach: do not run ntpd as daemon but using
>>>> cron and see how it goes :-?
>>>
>>> What's the difference of running ntpdate instead ntp with cron?
>>
>> Well, AFAIK they're different packages for different purposes, other
>> than that, I can't tell. But if you search for a full replacement of
>> "ntp" functionalities (client/server) you can look at "openntpd" and
>> "chrony".
> 
> openntpd is not in debian squeeze, I'm thinking to replace ntpd with
> chrony.

I have no special preference over the two packages but "openntpd" is 
available from squeeze-backports.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón