On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> The things that really care about time (like any service using Kerberos > security, or other things that use time as a salt in some other process) need > NTP because they don't work without completely accurate time. > Everything else can get along fine with running ntpdate once a day. IIRC Kerberos thinks about "not more than tens of seconds" where our hardware clock drifts less than 2 seconds per month or so... Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/