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! > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
