From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:29:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498A08A4.1000604@mykitchentable.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090204141119.3990a138@krikkit>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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 So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd
>> appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained
>> the same. Stopping ntpd & starting ntp-client corrected the date
>> 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.
>
To avoid running ntp-client and ntpd, look at the -g switch for ntpd.
It will make the big jump once and then keep the clock in sync.
Cheers,
Drew
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 13:38 [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client? Stroller
2009-02-04 13:40 ` Justin
2009-02-04 18:17 ` Stroller
2009-02-04 18:23 ` Justin
2009-02-04 19:09 ` Stroller
2009-02-14 7:28 ` Stroller
2009-02-15 21:51 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-02-16 1:09 ` Stroller
2009-02-16 9:40 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-02-04 13:56 ` Dale
2009-02-04 13:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-02-04 18:12 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-02-04 14:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-04 18:20 ` Stroller
2009-02-11 8:48 ` Wolfgang Liebich
2009-02-04 21:29 ` Drew Tomlinson [this message]
2009-02-05 13:04 ` Stroller
2009-02-05 23:16 ` Iain Buchanan
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