On 10/28/06, David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, At boot time ntpdate is started to update my clock but I noticed that when I am not connected to the network I get a significant time deviation (more then 30 minutes). Actually, I posted a message about the subject a few days ago but at the time I only knew that KDE starts the screen saver right after boot/login (sometimes I login really quick). Am I doing the right thing here? My machine: Intel based fujitsu 7020s laptop running Gentoo. -- Thanks. David Harel, ================================== Home office +972 77 4422234 Fax: +972 77 4422234 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In Debian (and apparently in Gentoo too[1]) you have an application called chrony. It's a daemon that can be set to update via ntp only upon network connectivity availability, in debian this is done with two scripts in /etc/ppp/if-up.d & /etc/ppp/if-down.d/ - Those making it especially suitable for portable devices. I also find chrony especially useful for not reliable rtc desktop hardware where clock skew can be measured in second/month. This is where chrony drift rate compensation feature comes very useful. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_E1405#Chrony_time-synchronization HTH -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
