What's the use case for running NTP from cron?  In general, that's considered 
bad practice, and unnecessary because of ntpd's maturity.  A few years ago we 
were bitten by NTP running out of cron on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.0 systems 
because of the "tickless kernel."

On Jul 10, 2013, at 15:52, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK.  Here are some wish-list items:
> 
> Using ntp by cron rather than as a daemon
> An easy way to specify your own, internal time servers without tearing up the 
> class.
> In the Red Hat template (since that's what I work on) : There is no resource 
> to ensure the driftfile exists or has the proper permissions on it or on its 
> directory.
> And a comment: Is all the commentary necessary in the template ?
> 
> As I get time, I will be happy to make some contributions to the module on my 
> first two points -- I can do Red Had / CentOS / Fedora, but someone else will 
> need to assist on the other distros.
> 
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in 
> the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
> 
> From: "Ashley Penney" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:57:32 PM
> Subject: [Puppet Users] puppetlabs-ntp template discussion
> 
> If you've ever refused to use the ntp module as it lacks something you need, 
> now is the time to shout out! 
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