Re: What do people do about large clock scews
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On 02/22/2009 12:30 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I have debian lenny in several vmware applications on different
>> windows machines so some of them don't get run too often.
>>
>> I noticed firing up one that hasn't been run for a few weeks that the
>> time is off a by several of hours.
>>
>> To get it up to speed, looks like I'd have to shut ntpd down, run
>> ntpdate then restart ntp.
>>
>> I'm thinking this might be a bit of a problem in other situations
>> than my experimental setup.
>>
>> I'm guessing people are writing their own init script to run ntpdate
>> on boot ahead of ntp, but I'm not yet conversant enough with the init
>> script maze to know how to do that handily.
>>
>> I can script something to run ntpdate alright but getting it timed to run
>> ahead of ntp may be a bit more daunting.
>>
>> But first, is there already a defacto way of doing this?
>
> AFAICT, ntpdate is run when networking is started, before ntp is run.
Well, that should rule out a large clock skew then.
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