| Steve Litt on 8 Jul 2015 19:54:27 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] ntp |
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:35:28 -0400 Eric Lucas <eric@lucii.org> wrote: > About 2 years ago I worked, briefly, with some systems using ntp. > Turns out if the time is off by some small amount (less than a minute > IIRC), it simply stops changing the target system's time because it > "thinks" something is drastically wrong. How does the system ever get that far out of time with ntpd running? If it happened when the server was off, the -s option for ntpd sets the time instantly at startup, correcting any large time problem that could have accumulated while the machine was off. > > Seems like a cron job to re-sync is a good idea to me. Yes, that seems harmless enough, if needed. SteveT Steve Litt July 2015 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug