Public bug reported:
Currently ntpdate is started every time the network interface changes to up.
On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing
unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers.
If easily possible ntpdate shold rather be called daily or weekly via
cron, if there is a hardware clock present.
(affects all Ubuntu versions)
** Affects: ntp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Currently ntpdate is started every time the network interface changes to up.
- On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing
unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers.
+ On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing
unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers.
If easily possible ntpdate shold rather be called daily or weekly via
cron, if there is a hardware clock present.
-
- (Valid on all Ubuntu versions and ntpdate versions)
+ (Valid on all Ubuntu versions)
** Description changed:
Currently ntpdate is started every time the network interface changes to up.
On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing
unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers.
If easily possible ntpdate shold rather be called daily or weekly via
cron, if there is a hardware clock present.
- (Valid on all Ubuntu versions)
+ (affects all Ubuntu versions)
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ntpdate call frequency
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