FYI to savannah-ites ...
I noticed that the list of mirrors for ftpmirror.gnu.org, which is the
file dl:/usr/local/share/GeoIP/gnu-mirror-list.txt, hadn't been updated
since 30 Nov 2011.
The script dl:/root/bin/gnu-mirmon.pl was already written to update it,
so I ran it by hand and made sure the
Michael or anyone, why do we run ntpdate hourly instead of the usual ntp
daemon? (dl:/etc/cron.d/ntpdate) Seems bizarre, to say the least.
Just wondering.
k
On 07/09/2012 02:39 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
Michael or anyone, why do we run ntpdate hourly instead of the usual ntp
daemon? (dl:/etc/cron.d/ntpdate) Seems bizarre, to say the least.
Just wondering.
k
This was manually setup some time back (not by me), since the DomUs time
was drifting. ntp
This was manually setup some time back (not by me), since the DomUs time
was drifting. ntp needs to update the time every hour to avoid being a
second off, from time to time.
Of course all clocks drift. My point was that if the ntp *daemon* was
running, ntpdate would not have to
