On Tuesday 16 August 2005 00:11, Bill wrote: > I did ntpd years and years back under linux when I was getting started > and had a bunch of issues, so I just have not revisited it. Perhaps I > will give it a look. > If by years and years ago, you mean in the 2.0 kernel era, then things are much better now (both under Linux 2.2 and later kernels, and under supported OpenBSDs). ntpd is easier to configure, thanks to the pool.ntp.org project, and "modern" kernels (for some rather large values of modern) include support needed to make ntpd work well. Plus, there's the OpenNTPD project, from the OpenBSD team.
> I just threw it in to get something running... of course had I known > this would be a problem... > For the archives, running ntpdate from cron is dangerous when the time adjustment is going to be backwards; it will cause the "same" second to happen twice, which can trigger all sorts of entertainment (cron firing the same job twice, make getting confused and other such fun). -- Simon Farnsworth [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
