From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUjRB-00072W-Il for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:13:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66607E0AE9; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (unknown [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10898E0AE9 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E9C5E46267F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:11:22 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:11:19 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client? Message-ID: <20090204141119.3990a138@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <43F46B7E-4EA3-471C-9C64-9A516B32FFE8@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <43F46B7E-4EA3-471C-9C64-9A516B32FFE8@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs53 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/x51YQxzVWFw6I4.Q6Jn9HE="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 53062373-8d35-41a0-8f9f-fe8a8e3e8ddd X-Archives-Hash: 05d4d6a37bd0b585a86686b4db14fc15 --Sig_/x51YQxzVWFw6I4.Q6Jn9HE= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:38:11 +0000, Stroller wrote: > So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd =20 > appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained =20 > the same. Stopping ntpd & starting ntp-client corrected the date =20 > immediately. ntpd will not change the time if the difference is too large, the man page gives the limit. You need to run both at boot; ntp-client sets the time immediately, no matter what the skew, then ntpd keeps the clock in time. --=20 Neil Bothwick Nymphomania-- an illness you hear about but never encounter. --Sig_/x51YQxzVWFw6I4.Q6Jn9HE= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmJogcACgkQum4al0N1GQOU6wCgoCYQwjthddPd5Xw+IV9zOCov 53cAn03UxZsUjZ9VXxGAMLm2wS0F/l/q =2Adp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/x51YQxzVWFw6I4.Q6Jn9HE=--