On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:22:33AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> writes: > > > Servers that rarely (re)configure network or boot, can also setup cron > > to call to ntpdate or install an NTP client daemon when they are first > > configured. > > FWIW, calling ntpdate from cron is a *horrible* idea.
I would like to make it clear that we should *never* run something that updates the time from cron. That would have as effect that all clients will query the time at about the same time causing a massive overload of the ntp servers. If you run that against the ntp pool I believe that would be reason for having *.debian.pool.ntp.org getting disabled. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org