Re: NTP Daemon

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
>> my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
>> adjtime failed: Invalid argument
>> 
>> Could someone help me or suggest something?
>> Thanks

> "aptitude install ntp-server" and off you go.

I believe it's now called just `ntp'.

> I know it's called a "server" and you want a "client" but there's not really
> much difference with NTP and the default configuration should be exactly
> what you want.

Indeed.  Incidentally `openntpd' is also both a client and a server.
Openntpd is OK but it seems that it was developped for a kernel whose
time-tracking facilities are not as sophisticated as Linux's (at least they
don't use them).


        Stefan