Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-22 Thread shinny knight
In response to John Webster : --On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:51:29 -0500 Bill Moran wrote: In response to John Webster : Not generally suitable for cron because it can take longer to slew than it does for the next cron execution to occur, which would then result in multiple

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread shinny knight
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Michael W. Lucas : Hi, Been searching around without results: Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a jail server? ntpd(8) binds to all addresses, and I'd rather not do a ntpdate out

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Michael W. Lucas : Been searching around without results: Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a jail server? ntpd(8) binds to all

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread John Webster
--On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reason that is not recommended is that it results in sudden steps of the clock. Occasionally, these steps go backwards. Software that is very sensitive to

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reason that is not recommended is that it results in sudden steps of the clock. Occasionally, these steps

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread John Webster
--On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:24:40 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reason that is not

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Bill Moran wrote: ntpdate -B should slew the time slowly. (According to the manpage.) Not generally suitable for cron because it can take longer to slew than it does for the next cron execution to occur, which would then result in multiple ntpdate programs

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:24:40 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread John Webster
--On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:51:29 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not generally suitable for cron because it can take longer to slew than it does for the next cron execution to occur, which would then result in multiple

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:51:29 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not generally suitable for cron because it can take longer to slew than it does for the next cron

timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-18 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, Been searching around without results: Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a jail server? ntpd(8) binds to all addresses, and I'd rather not do a ntpdate out of cron. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael W. Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Been searching around without results: Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a jail server? ntpd(8) binds to all addresses, and I'd rather not do a ntpdate out of cron. I'm not entirely sure I comprehend where

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-18 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Michael W. Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Been searching around without results: Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a jail server? ntpd(8) binds to all addresses, and I'd rather not do