[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > This also raises the question of why the local clock was configured > in the first place. If it had not been, ntpd would have correctly > detected that it was in a hopeless situation and would have reported > unsynchronised and eventually shut down. In my view, most people shouldn't > configure the local clock, and those that do should have thought carefully > about it.
Under what circumstances *should* the local clock be configured? (Your remark hit a nerve. I recently booted my laptop without network access for the first time, and ntp wrote 0.0 into the driftfile. Sounds like it wouldn't have done that if the local clock hadn't been configured.) Jon _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
