On Sun, Mar 11 2007, at 16:31 +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi Bram, Hi All > > > > Bram, I'm not an expert for time setting procedures on Linux. The > > following is just a glimpse on what I might have learned on Linux time > > setting routines over the last few years ... > <snip> > > > *** 4: I'd suggest to stop ntpd. I does not seem to be necessary to me > > as long as one has 'ntpdate' and hwclock on a system. I'd try > > to keep things as simple as possible. > > I had a look at the scripts, and the bugs, and the manpages, and all > this stuff really seems quite complicated to me.
It is complicated. Even for me, if I don't care for my computer clocks for a few months, it is normal that I have to re-read the whole procedure I'm using if something goes wrong. "Going wrong" happens at times after a system crash, e.g., when the times are set back to 1970 (and 2004, IIRC). These times I start all over with recalibrating the hardware clock ... I swear I hate these situations ... > In the end, if I would do that instead of running ntpd with an > adjusted kernel tick parameter like I do now, I would have to do a > lot before I would even understand all this stuff, and then maybe I > would get a situation that works as well as the current one. True. If the ntpd routines work for you, why change them .. ? > But it's still both a hack, because I don't think users shouldn have > to mess with this stuff, so in the meantime, I'm happy to keep > running ntpd. A lot seems to me being a hack, if I look to the files in /etc/ ... :) What I like about my procedure is how I can teach my hardware clock about its own drift rate. And when this calibrating job is done I simply don't have to do anything about all this clock setting stuff on the machine, for many weeks. Because my system is doing the job for me then. I don't even need the internet for weeks to have relatively accurate times on my system. All this because, provided I'm not to lazy to start working on it, I always try to let the computer do as much work as possible, without my intervention what-so-ever. But yes: It's a complicated thing ... :) Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer I made slight changes on Key ID: E3037113. Please refresh it. http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
