-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2005-12-14 at 21:43 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
As I understand it, the system clock is set upon boot from network time sources by the command /etc/init.d/ntp start
If you have continuous network (internet) access and configured /etc/ntp.conf appropiately.
and can subsequently be set by /etc/init.d/ntp restart
No.
There's a "drift file" that is used in order to update the clock hourly, though its explanation isn't entirely clear.
No. ntp runs as a daemon and updates the clock continuously. Which "drift" file are you refering to?
automatically? I suppose I could put the "ntp restart" command in as an hourly cronjob, but that somehow doesn't seem to be a wise idea.
It would be a very bad idea. You might be confusing ntpd with ntpdate: the second is a one shot program, it sets the clock and exits, and can be used as a cron job. Have a read at my writeup, it might clarify some ideas: http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/howto/time.html - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDorw8tTMYHG2NR9URAgkxAJ9XHyGAwHIYktEAYmBmXMjNBhvN1gCfU7nK CE0CTEcbZg/ntoXAPbW9DIA= =xnTu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----