On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:02:49PM -0100, Duncan Webb wrote: > > > Running a NTP daemon requires a permanent internet connection. Dual boot > usually requires the clock in local time, that's clear.
Absolutely and totally false. Please do your research before making such statements. > What I don't understand is why anybody would have a problem syncing the > hardware clock to the system clock at reboot/power off. After all the > system clock is synced to the hardware clock at boot. I see Ken beat me to the punch WRT to both the "your distro, your rules" mantra, *and* the relevant discussions of old. When I took over the maintenance of the time hint (http://www.lfs-matrix.org/hints/downloads/files/time.txt) I, too, was of the opinion that the system clock would be more accurate than the hwclock. I was inundated with examples of that not being true and included one such example in the hint itself. Thus, the realization that we cannot assume which is more accurate. BTW, depending on how *you* want to do things, you can either run ntpd manually from time to time or via cron and create the symlinks or forget ntpd altogether. It's completely your call. ;) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
