Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Joe Pruett <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> More info. I found entries in daemon.log: >>> Nov 30 08:06:04 R2D4 ntpdate[3330]: step time server 69.63.177.217 >>> offset 0.894285 sec >>> ... >>> Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: can't find host >>> http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us >>> Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: no servers can be used, exiting >>> >>> This seems to indicate that ntpdate was run before I made the changes >>> to anacrontab and rebooted. Perhaps I did do it manually, but I do >>> not recall doing that, and I can not find the command in my history. >>> The only conclusion I can get from this is that ntpdate is already >>> being run somewhere. I think I had better remove my changes to >>> anacrontab, reboot, and look at daemon.log again. >>> >>> Also, it seem that http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us as suggested by >>> Randall is not working. Did I miss-type? >>> >> no, you misunderstood. you were supposed to go look at that web page >> which would tell you what to put into your ntp config. >> >> terse, but confusing is our motto :-). >> > > Ah--thanks for the clue-stick. > > But now that i look at that site, I see the following: "Make sure your > computer's clock is set to something sensible (within a few minutes of > the 'true' time) - you could use ntpdate pool.ntp.org". > > That is what I was planning, which precipitated Randall's comment > (lazy, he said!). So I do not feel so bad in interpreting the advice > on that site as I had. Seeing as I will not be using ntpd (my machine > is typically not up long enough to make it a sensible way to correct > the clock--correct me if I am wrong), I plan to use ntpdate. > > ntpdate uses data in /etc/default/ntpdate (ntpd not installed, hence > no /etc/ntp.conf file. So now I have added to /etc/default/ntpdate > the line NTPSERVERS="0.us.pool.ntp.org 1.us.pool.ntp.org > 2.us.pool.ntp.org 3.us.pool.ntp.org" > > We will see if that keeps the binary men happy. > > Now to go back to the question of whether ntpdate is being run by > default, buried somewhere in the bowels this system. > > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I think Ubuntu runs ntpdate at bootup by default. IIRC, I read that in one of the Ubuntu forums.
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