All, I have set up NTP on a small network of widgets running linux 2.6.14, and there is a reqmnt that all widgets maintain their times to within a certain amount of each other.
One machine serves time to the others. Periodically, the server must dial out and update his own time from us.pool.ntp.org or whatever (right now my scheme is to kill ntpd, dial out, do a ntpdate, hang up, and restart ntpd. I gather this is unconventional, but not my biggest worry right now). I was asked to set up the server so that periodically, hwclock -s will run (to copy our very accurate HW clock time to the system time, which seems to have ~2 sec per day error). However, I have found that ntpd is writing to the HW RTC. Why, and when ? Ntpd didn't complain before I enabled the H/W RTC in my kernel- now that it is, it's being written. I haven't found any docs that cover this- can someone shed light? TIA all.. Martin Rogers _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
