What's the use case for running NTP from cron? In general, that's considered bad practice, and unnecessary because of ntpd's maturity. A few years ago we were bitten by NTP running out of cron on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.0 systems because of the "tickless kernel."
On Jul 10, 2013, at 15:52, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote: > OK. Here are some wish-list items: > > Using ntp by cron rather than as a daemon > An easy way to specify your own, internal time servers without tearing up the > class. > In the Red Hat template (since that's what I work on) : There is no resource > to ensure the driftfile exists or has the proper permissions on it or on its > directory. > And a comment: Is all the commentary necessary in the template ? > > As I get time, I will be happy to make some contributions to the module on my > first two points -- I can do Red Had / CentOS / Fedora, but someone else will > need to assist on the other distros. > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in > the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > From: "Ashley Penney" <ashley.pen...@puppetlabs.com> > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:57:32 PM > Subject: [Puppet Users] puppetlabs-ntp template discussion > > If you've ever refused to use the ntp module as it lacks something you need, > now is the time to shout out! > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
