On 12 December 2013 13:17, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:15:41PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote: >> Although I am probably hammering a rather cold iron, I still fail to >> understand why ntp is not installed by default. I would expect precise >> timekeeping to be something important on a server (instead of allowing >> the time to drift slowly). > > Right now, ntpdate is seeded in platform.trusty/minimal. I only see ntp > itself in server-ship, so we end up with ntpdate installed without ntp > as standard everywhere. > > I recently filed > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731352. There, I'm told > that ntpdate on its own (without ntpd) is deprecated. > > So should we be installing ntpdate by default without ntp at all via the > minimal seed? If so, then I'd like to have ntpdate use the DHCP > ntp-server option if it is available, as I've described in that bug, to > fix a MAAS issue on hardware where an RTC isn't available. It looks like > this functionality has been there a while, but has not been enabled in > the case where ntp isn't installed, but ntpdate is, which is the common > case. >
Note that in Debian it is at the moment actively discussed to potentially install NTP daemon by default, with current siding to use openntpd http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731594 -- Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel