On Friday 16 December 2005 06:40 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
You can answer all your questions and get a better understanding of the function of the ntp daemon if you would spend a few minutes reading the beginning of the voluminous documentation available for ntp. Also there are *many* faq's in existance. Carlos Robinson has written a good one. *You* need to do this because your questions show that you know *very* little of the function of ntp. --
My thoughts exactly.... and the reason that SuSE doesn't turn it on by default is because it *does* put a load on all of the time servers (especially by people who don't know how to operate NTPD) and you are *supposed* to ask permission or at least notify the owner of a time server that you are going to access it. Do your homework, please.....