On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:40:51AM +0100, walter harms wrote: > > > Am 23.11.2015 07:49, schrieb Wei, Catherine: > > Hi: > > I've checked the ntpclient, and found that it can monitor the time > > difference between server and local machine, but seems it cannot support > > runtime configuration as Michael D. Setzer II said. > > > > We use it busybox ntp for some time now, also with ntpclient since it is > convenient. > btw: ntpdate is removed from ntp some time ago. > > Why do you need a runtime configuration at all ? you can always restart with > a new setup, > write a small wrapper and you can use a file again.
Indeed, this seems ideal. Proper use of ntp only makes extremely-small adjustments to the clock rate, so stopping the ntp client for a fraction of a second (or even several hours) and restarting it with new configuration is not going to have any noticable effect on the system clock. Rich _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
