Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:44:23AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 06:36:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > > On 24 Dec 2002, John Hasler wrote:
> > >
> > > > Bill Moseley writes:
> > > > > I just don't think it unreasonable that there could be periods of time
> > > > > when ntp can't connect to the remote hosts -- and that should not stop
> > > > > ntp.
> > > >
> > > > Chrony is designed to work with intermittent connections.
> > >
> > > Any idea why it conflicts with ntpdate? Installing it remvoed ntpdate.
> > > ntp didn't conflict with ntpdate.
> >
> > No idea...chrony is a lot smarter than ntpdate though; it gradually
> > moves your clock back and forth so that running apps don't get confused,
> > as well as tracking how inaccurate your hardware RTC is, and fixing it
> > while it drifts. Overall, a very cool tool.
>
> Maybe I missed this in the docs, but I didn't see that it updates the
> hwclock during normal execution. It can be made to update the hwclock
> (the example they give is in a ppp-down.d script), but in my case the
> machine boots and ppp comes up and the only time it goes down has been a
> power failure. So pp-down.d scripts are not called.
>
> Did I miss something?
As John Hasler recently pointed out, add 'trimrtc' to
/etc/chrony/chrony.conf.
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