Re: options - Re: ntp server

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya zenaan

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> > > Replaces: xntp, xntp3, ntp (<= 1:4.1.0-2)
> > 
> > almost replaces :-)
> 
> Hi Alvin, you've provided a lot of help so far, but now for perhaps the
> first question I should have asked - what ntp package should I run? Eg.
> given:

for laptops, that gets connected and unconnected, you just need
ntpdate or similar ( something just checks once or via cron )

xntpd or equiv is for machines that is on 24x7 so that it can
keep sync and trickle down to closer and closer to what the real time is

most people can handle being off a few seconds .. nothing bad will happen

and if your clock drifts more than a second over a 24hr period,
you're in deep kaa-kaa anyway

> $ apt-cache search ntp|grep ntp|sort

seems to list lots of stuff but ... 
	- chrony should also be listed, since there's some that
	prefer it over ntpd

> ntp - Network Time Protocol: network utilities

that should be the normal ntp daemon stuff which includes xntpd
	- ntpd is the binary
	- xntpd is the script to starts up the binary or vice versa
	( different distro/packages mix and match and changes the
	( binaries and scripts

> I see no "xntp". And from your clarification of what's happening in
> cron, it looks like I should be running a different package. And again:

see above
 
c ya
alvin