Uwe Klein wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> Harlan Stenn wrote: >> >>>>>> In article <uck566-23p....@gateway.py.meinberg.de>, Martin Burnicki >>>>>> <martin.burni...@meinberg.de> writes: >>> >>> Harlan> Because ntpd also gets restarted, and there is a strong belief >>> that >>> Harlan> -g is bad for a restart and restarts will happen more often than >>> Harlan> boots. >>> >>> Martin> Huh? I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here. >>> >>> The general case is that -g should only be used at startup, when time >>> can be >>> stepped. >>> >>> If ntpd is restarted, it is Bad for the time to be stepped backwards for >>> many people. Since this could happen with -g, when restarting ntpd >>> for this >>> common case, one should not use -g. >> >> Why should it be necessary to restart ntpd???? Unless I have a power >> failure that lasts longer than my UPS, I almost never restart my NTP >> server! Same for the NTP clients. >> >> Systems that go down and up like a yo-yo are never going to know what >> time it is anyway! > > See: > currently on SuSE systems 'rcntpd restart' is run on any interface changes. > > uwe
Why? ntpd support dynamic interface changes. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
