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Package: adjtimex
Version: 1.26-1
Severity: important
Installing adjtimex should not automatically mess up the system clock. It is a
useful tool for printing the kernel clock parameters.
* It does not check if something else is syncing the clock.
* It does not appear to have sanity checks.
* It assumes that the CMOS clock is accurate.
This appears to be untrue for my system, whose cmos clock is -20000 ppm (-2%?
hmm...)
When I want output of adjtimex --print, I should not have to tell people to
install adjtimex, fix adjtimex --tick (and possibly --freq), and stop it from
running at startup.
When I update adjtimex, I should not have to clean up after it, either.
If automatically syncinc time is a genuinely useful feature for some people, it
should either be selectable at configure time (like e.g. snort) or moved into a
separate package.
$ dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up adjtimex (1.26-1) ...
Regulating system clock...done.
Comparing clocks (this will take 70 sec)...done.
Adjusting system time by -1729.64 sec/day to agree with CMOS clock...done.
$ cat /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
-2.296
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages adjtimex depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
adjtimex recommends no packages.
Versions of packages adjtimex suggests:
ii ntpdate 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-7 client for setting system time fro
-- debconf information:
adjtimex/run_daemon: true
adjtimex/compare_rtc: true
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--- Begin Message ---
> Installing adjtimex should not automatically mess up the system
> clock. It is a useful tool for printing the kernel clock
> parameters.
adjtimex now has a configuration question (asked via debconf) to
suppress running at each boot.
- Jim Van Zandt
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