Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Hal Murray wrote: > >>> I'm querying whether ntpd will log an error to syslog if it can't >>> synchronise the time. >>> > <snip> > >> >> You probably want to know if one of the servers you are using >> has died so you can switch to another before too many more die. >> > > That's why you normally configure four, five, or seven servers. These > "magic numbers" protect you against the failure of one, two, or three > servers respectively. "Failure" can mean anything from not responding > to responding with the wrong year!
Doing a FAIL save setup is orthogonal to announcing failures (early). Compare to RAID devices: If the user is not informed about failure of any one of the redundant devices the final failure will be as catastrophic as a plain storage device. ( actually it will be more hurtfull due to the user having been assured that his disks are "fail save" obviating the need for independent backup. ) uwe _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
