| Jeff Abrahamson on 9 Feb 2006 20:29:54 -0000 |
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Eugene Smiley wrote: > [26 lines, 167 words, 1209 characters] Top characters: te_nioas > > Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > Debian says that ntpd doesn't start automatically nor even provide an > > init.d script because the maintainer can't find a solution that works > > sufficiently broadly. Result, "apt-get install ntp" doesn't have > > quite the intended behavior. Sadly, the distro doesn't include any > > sample scripts for init.d/, either. > > That's funny, /etc/init.d/ntp-server (start|stop) works for me. I'll > grant that I must pay attention to if its running after reboot. Ah, I see now. The init.d file comes from ntp-server, not from ntp. Silly me, I just wanted a client and so didn't look at the server package. OK, now I'm running an ntp server and I've dropped the ntpdate line from my root crontab. > > Rather than spend the time to make a robust /etc/init.d/ntp-client, I > > just added the following to my root crontab: > > > > 23 4 * * * /etc/init.d/ntpdate start 2>&1 >/dev/null > > > > Does this seem somehow to be a bad move? > > As someone involved with the NTP pool project, I say it's not the > prefered behavior. It tends to cause the servers to take a beating, > especially when people set cron to run once an hour at :00. That, of course, was the reason for picking the semi-random 4:23... -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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