Re: [arch-general] hwclock and openntpd

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Gundersen
Paul, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > I've found this gnawing at me since I read it.  I originally started using > OpenNTPD because it was smaller, lighter, and easier to configure.  However, > it's disappointing that it doesn't deal better with the hardware clock. > >

Re: [arch-general] hwclock and openntpd

2011-06-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 04 June 2011 08:44:34 Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 03:06 -0400, Yclept Nemo wrote: > > Perhaps openntpd does not set the hwclock. Therefore, should openntpd > > be used in conjuction with the hwclock daemon? > > That's true, and that's also the reason why Openntpd doesn'

Re: [arch-general] hwclock and openntpd

2011-06-04 Thread F.Gr.
Jan de Groot : > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 03:06 -0400, Yclept Nemo wrote: > > Perhaps openntpd does not set the hwclock. Therefore, should > > openntpd be used in conjuction with the hwclock daemon? > > That's true, and that's also the reason why Openntpd doesn't play > well with Xen where all gues

Re: [arch-general] hwclock and openntpd

2011-06-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 03:06 -0400, Yclept Nemo wrote: > Perhaps openntpd does not set the hwclock. Therefore, should openntpd > be used in conjuction with the hwclock daemon? That's true, and that's also the reason why Openntpd doesn't play well with Xen where all guest VMs will take over the clo

[arch-general] hwclock and openntpd

2011-06-04 Thread Yclept Nemo
A recent announcement said: * The adjustment of the hwclock for drift is moved into a daemon that should not be used in most scenarios as it can lead to subtle bugs (especially if using dual-boot or ntp). If you know what you are doing and want to adjust the hardware clock for drift, add `"hwcloc