On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:01:37PM +0800, Darren Reed wrote: > Or if the NTP server is rebooting or....
You should have more than one. OK, network partitions... > Come on, lets get real - this is ntpdate. > > If ntpdate fails, it shouldn't be putting NTP into maintanance at all. As long as the clock did not get too far out of sync -- farther than you want to tolerate. ntpdate has a timeout option. Perhaps the service should make this configurable, as well as whether to proceed if ntpdate timeour or go into maintenance. > The idea here is to start up xntpd which is quite capable of handling > the task that ntpdate is there to do, in its own time. But you may not want to have your apps start if the clock is too skewed. This should be a knob... Nico --
