On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:10:40PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Nov 22, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > >reopen 397649 > >thanks > > > >Could we have NTP by default? > > > >> But it would be a problem for the minority who have no or only > >> intermittent (e.g. dial-up) network access. > > > >Why would it be a problem? > > No network mean the "Network Time Protocol" won't work. > > Intermittent network (e.g. dial-up) means that NTP goes for long > periods with no connection to the external time servers. The ntpd > daemon is (mostly) OK with that, but some auto-dialers may see it's > occasional polls as a reason to dial the ISP, which is probably not > what the user expected. > >
Instead of NTP you could use chrony which gets put offline with poff. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
