Eugene Smiley on 30 Aug 2005 02:17:37 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] pool.ntp.org


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Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:10:31PM -0400, Eugene Smiley wrote:
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>>  [50 lines, 278 words, 1899 characters]  Top characters: etoinra_
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>>Just throwing this out there for those of you with liunx boxes
>>co-located or on the end of a fat Comcast pipe or Verizon FIOS...
>>
>>(You are running NTP on your network already, right?)
>
>
> It's worth noting that Debian does not run an ntp client unless you
> configure it manually.  You'd think that apt-get install ntp would
> do it, but the maintainer washes his hands of the complexity of not
> ticking people off by doing it slightly wrong, alas.

That explains why after installing ntp I've always had to do a
/etc/init.d/ntp-server start

However after that it always starts up when the machine gets
rebooted.




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