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Re: NTP dynamic servers?



On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:56:02AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Jan 27, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 
> >I used to run chrony (with difficulty) but ran into a problem with my
> >new box: it couldn't access the hwclock.  If I told it not to, (so  
> >that
> >the hwclock shutdown script could work), it really messed up my time.
> >So I switched to ntp.  I access the net with ppp and put a script into
> >ip-up.d to restart ntp when the link comes up.  Yes, ntp will jump
> >instead of skew since a skew can take a __very__ long time to
> >accomplish.
> 
> 
> If you're running "etch", you might want to try the etch "ntpdate"  
> package.  It's configured to run ntpdate and jump the clock to the  
> correct time every time a network interface is brought up.  You  
> should probably not run ntp at the same time -- in this mode, the two  
> will fight about who controls the system clock.
> 
 

The ntp docs say that ntpdate will (as they put it, after an appropriate
period of mourning) be obsolete now that ntp has the -q option.  

Doug.



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