unruh wrote:> David Woolley wrote:
>> Steve Kostecke wrote:
>>> What will happen when ntpd is started has been discussed
>>> elsewhere in this thread.
>>
>> If you want to clear a very large error by a pure slew,
>> the best way is not to start ntpd until you have cleared
>> the error, but, instead, to use whatever utility your OS
>> uses to access the system calls that ntpd uses, and set
>> a high slew rate, which you only clear when you are
>> approaching zero offset.
>
> But why should he have to do this by hand? Why should ntpd
> not do it for him? Taking care of such housekeeping is
> what computers are good for.
It will, that is what the step is, if panic is disabled.
I am unclear though if the OP didn't want to step the time
when starting ntp, apparently long after system is booted,
{If so I doubt they would want to manually step either};
or just not wanting a step when internet connectivity reoccurs,
while the system and ntp had been already running?
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