hehe .. I do wonder if hypervisors on other platforms deal wiith this -- my guess is they just shrug and run ntpd on their guests. I do understand the mentality of running the same setup on every platform .. but it isn't that difficult to allow for the fact that you don't want packages installed and running that aren't necessary for the platform. And .. (IMO) there should be a difference between a virtual setup and a physical one.
As you say - se la vi :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 March 2015 at 23:02, Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not sure how strongly you were asked :) -- but I would explain that > > z/VM-Linux are already synced with whatever NTP server the z is using.. > > and I would ask why it should then be necessary. Put the burden of > > explanation on them to tell you why it doesn't satisfy the time synch > > requirement. > > > > Scott Rohling > > > > Such is life. I remember a discussion with the Linux admin that went like > this :-) > > R: You're running ntpd - you shouldn't when the hypervisor is already > synchronized > A: But I need the exact time, and that requires ntpd > R: No, it does not. It's wasting resources and does not do you any good. > A: I need it anyway, for exact time. > R: Your time on z/Linux will be less exact with ntpd than without > A: I does not have to be that exact, so I will run ntpd anyway > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
