-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-08-16 at 14:16 -0700, Sloan wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2007-08-16 at 11:48 -0700, Sloan wrote:
rcntpd restart Which will not work at all if he is not using ntpd. IIUC the discussion concerned how to best restart ntpd. The OP was concerned about the accuracy of time on his linux system, and ntpd (or periodic ntpdate) is the obvious answer.
No, it isn't. Not if he has a missaligned "/etc/adjtime", as he surely has, and that is not solved by restarting ntpd a hundred times. Everytime he boots up the time would be bad again.
I've not seen that condition in 10 years among the few hundred linux boxes here, but should /etc/adjtime actually be defective, one could just nuke it and be good to go. I'd be more concerned with the root cause, i.e. how did /etc/adjtime get corrupted in the first place.
Then you haven't been reading the list during the past ten years, because the condition has been reported here several times :-P Go ahead, search the archive: how /etc/adjtime becomes missaligned or defective on a SuSE system has been explained here several times. It is documented, too. Also, remember that there are many PCs out there without a permanent network connection, for which running ntpd is not an option. Nevertheless, keeping the clock reasonable accurate is possible. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGxez/tTMYHG2NR9URAtKOAJ91cdJJR/2aHY7X1pp8b1oMj+4TsgCgjPmw 6Jr81BB9E74ngvoqAP3pc60= =0uqb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org