Hi there,
I just logged into one of my machines that has recently been powered
down for a few days - not a terribly common occurrence with my servers
- to find a date of January 30th showing.
I used to run ntp-client, but AIUI adding this to the default runlevel
only sets the clock once at boot up. Of course the problem with that
is that the computer's clock can become inaccurate if the spring
tension is weak, as is obviously the case in my older PCs.
So a while back I changed /etc/runlevels/default so that ntpd is
started instead.
I understood that ntpd was not only a server for my LAN (a facility I
don't use) but that it would also periodically check the time with
upstream servers & keep the machine's clock in constant sync.
So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd
appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained
the same. Stopping ntpd & starting ntp-client corrected the date
immediately.
Before I do any investigation, can someone tell me if my understanding
so far is correct? Is ntpd supposed to keep the machine's clock in
constant sync, or is it only (say) a server to offer the date to
clients? (depending upon the clock being set correctly by other means)
I thought I had configured ntpd with upstream servers separately from
ntp-client.
Stroller.
- [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client? Stroller
-