On 9 Apr., 19:42, "wa6zvp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 9, 9:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christine Ross) wrote: > > > I am setting up ntp clients on solaris 8 and 10 servers. The default cron > > job run rtp program. In my reading, I see that "the daemon will abort > > itself if the offset between its clock and the serer's clock is too great" > > and that offset is 17 minutes. > > > Will my daemon stop if the rtc program has run and there is a large > > difference in the clocks? Do I disable this cronjob > > > 1 2 * * * [ -x /usr/sbin/rtc ] && /usr/sbin/rtc -c > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > Thank you > > Christine > > Christine, > I don't know anything about Solaris, but my google reading indicates > that this is a program that only messes with TZ to handle DST, and > does not do anything to the actual local internal clock. > > So my thoughts are that it can stay as is. > > Roger
Right. At least on Sun/Solaris systems, you can leave the cron call to rtc just as it is. Paul _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
