From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: re: which NTPd package to use?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:31:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2014.07.26.12.31.55@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53D39983.8050706@gmail.com
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:05:23 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> Which NTPd package would the list recommend using, ntp, openntpd, or
> some other package?
chrony - no competition, even for servers. ntpd is way overrated,
unnecessarily hard to setup correctly, fragile and contrary to
popular belief not even that accurate, unless you use external
HW clocks. Chrony is maintained by Red Hat in cooperation with the
timekeeping code in the kernel.
> openntpd seems to be easier to set up according to wiki.gentoo.org.
Many many years ago I helped port openntpd to Linux. It was OK-ish at
the time and easier/less hassle than ntpd, but the portable version for
Linux stopped working reliably many years ago due to kernel changes.
IMHO it really should no longer be in the tree since it gives a false
sense of accuracy.
just my 0.01€..
-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-26 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-26 12:05 [gentoo-user] re: which NTPd package to use? Alexander Kapshuk
2014-07-26 12:18 ` Dale
2014-07-26 12:29 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2014-07-26 12:31 ` Holger Hoffstätte [this message]
2014-07-26 12:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Kapshuk
2014-07-26 18:14 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2014-07-26 18:38 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-07-26 19:34 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2014-07-26 20:25 ` Dale
2014-07-27 12:19 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2014-07-26 19:10 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-07-26 23:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-07-28 16:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Douglas J Hunley
2014-07-28 16:47 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-28 21:20 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-07-28 21:25 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2014-07-28 22:20 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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