Erik Christiansen writes: > On 21.10.15 23:15, Russell Coker wrote: >> The Debian package ntp has the ntpd. >> It is built from the same source package as ntpdate. >> If you want to set the date from a cron job (or manually) then use ntpdate. >> Otherwise use ntp. > > Darnit, the ntp package _is_ there. Many thanks. > Have purged openntpd, and substituted ntp. > > The only remaining oddity is that ntpdate (when I give it a whirl) still > doesn't seem able to obey its own conf file, to use /etc/ntp.conf: > > # ntpdate -d > [...]
If you already install ISC ntpd, just use "ntpd -q". ntpdate is for people who *don't* install an ntpd. ntpd -q has been available since at least Debian 6 (Feb 2011). If you have systemd, and you don't need to be an NTP *server*, consider "systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd" instead. This is installed but off by default in Debian 8; AIUI it will be the default in Debian 9. Running hwclock(8) manually is mostly unnecessary. The *kernel* writes to the hardware clock every 11 minutes, iff it believes there's an NTP client keeping the system clock accurate. (I researched this last month, but I don't have the cites handy. If anyone cares, I can go dig it up.) PS: re "doesn't obey it's config file", in Debian there are hooks in ISC dhclient to restart ntpd every time it gets a lease, with a custom temporary ntpd.conf. Maybe ntpdate is using that instead of /etc/ntp.conf? _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
