On Wednesday 14 October 2009 13:56:33 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:35 PM, PGNet Dev wrote: > If your clock is drifting by more than about a minute per day (I think > the actual value is 43 seconds), your hardware clock is too broken to > be able to sync with real time short of extreme measures. You might > be better off not running ntpd at all in such case, and just run sntp > via cron every hour.
Danger, bad, evil and multiple varieties of not good. running sntp every hour on the whatever is considered very not good. Instead I'd write a cheapo shell script or something. (delusion) +#!/bin/dash +while [ ! -x /var/lib/ntp/kill_me_now ] +do + ntp --gqx + sleep 2048 +done this should fake a ntpd service with a poll 0f 11. except it should work with really broken clocks until you can use them to bludgeon management and the bean counters. Note, that on the zero machines I tested it on it caused the hardware to detonate killing every one in the room. Invite your enemies to observe from the wrong side of the plexi.(/delusion) Usual BS disclaimer applies. ie not suitable for anything, if it breaks you get to keep both pieces, and anyyhing extra you want you have to get with an ambulance chasing shyster. JamesB192 ---- Msg sent via CableONE.net MyMail - http://www.cableone.net _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
