23 Feb
2006
23 Feb
'06
07:25
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Perhaps as a last comment - ntpd does't actually need a permanent network connection. When it has one, it'll try to sync with whichever server you have specified, and when it doesn't have a connection, you can configure it to pretend the local clock is good enough (I think this is the default SUSE config).
True enough. But it is pointless to start it then, anyway :-)
Not quite. I guess it depends - if I would like my system to be sync'ed to a precise clock, and my network connection is intermittent (dial-up or just unstable), I would still just start ntpd and forget about it. That way I would achieve a situation of "mostly synced clock" without giving it any more thought. /Per Jessen, Zürich