On 22 October 2014 15:59, Seth Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: >> I'd like to seed ntp in both server and cloud-image in Vivid. Servers >> should maintain the correct time by default. Please make any objections >> now. >> >> Right now, ntpdate is seeded in minimal. It makes little sense to have >> both ntpdate and ntp installed. > > Historically, ntpd would refuse to change the system time beyond a small > amount, so ntpdate was run in the initscripts for ntpd to make sure that > ntpd could keep things synchronized from then on. Is this still the case? > is this smallish amount of time configurable? > > It only makes sense to install ntpd if it will also be configured. Are we > going to use pool.ntp.org? This may work well enough for "simple" uses, > but does allow any member of pool.ntp.org to completely mess up times of > potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of users. >
Default ntp provider on ubuntu is ntp.ubuntu.com which points to two canonical hosted ntp servers/end-points, as far as I can observe. > Will it be easy enough for an organization to override the configuration > in each of the use cases you've described? > > Thanks > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
