Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Chris Davies wrote, on 01/12/12 00:12: Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de wrote: Here I'm using rdate -an in a cron job with something like the following rdate -acnv $NTPHOST Just like ntpdate or any of the other cron based solutions proposed in this thread, this does not train the clock. So

Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty). Should I be concerned about it? And, if so, what am I supposed to do to correct it.

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Patrick. You worte: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty). Should I be concerned about it? And, if so, what am

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Patrick Wiseman wrote: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty). That is a minor upgrade bug in the ntp package. You had a previous

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Sthu Deus wrote: Not answering to Your question, but as mine opinion - if You do not intend other hosts to be sync-ing time w/ this host, I think You need the service at all. Time is important to most internet hosts. We always hate to see email from users with a date of 1970 for example. I

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty).

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Bob Proulx wrote, on 01/11/12 18:32: Sthu Deus wrote: Not answering to Your question, but as mine opinion - if You do not intend other hosts to be sync-ing time w/ this host, I think You need the service at all. Time is important to most internet hosts. We always hate to see email from

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 11 ian 12, 10:26:48, Bob Proulx wrote: For reasons that I haven't been following there has been a push to remove those shutdown links generally from everything. I don't know why. Perhaps someone else will comment on why. Removing those links seems like it breaks going to single

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Popescu wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: For reasons that I haven't been following there has been a push to remove those shutdown links generally from everything. I don't know why. Perhaps someone else will comment on why. Removing those links seems like it breaks going to single user

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 11 ian 12, 15:01:57, Bob Proulx wrote: From lurking on debian-devel I can tell that your guess is right on :) (the motive is to speed-up the shutdown). Is there a plan for packages to deal with the links that are left behind? Could we, should we, start filing bugs if a package

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Davies
Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de wrote: Here I'm using rdate -an in a cron job with something like the following rdate -acnv $NTPHOST Just like ntpdate or any of the other cron based solutions proposed in this thread, this does not train the clock. So although rdate slews the clock, it doesn't

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 11, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Patrick. You worte: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty).