[Mageia-dev] Why ntpdate still there?

Mon Feb 11 14:46:22 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 11/02/13 12:57 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Monday 11. February 2013 12.19, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
+>> Use of ntpdate in crontab is a very bad idea because a great number of  users 
+>> can make a burst of activity and a saturation of servers.
+> 
+> Then don't use it in crontab.
+> 
+>> ntpd is more accurate with few requests and can also setup the clock.
+>> ntpd makes requests after a long time. More the clock is adjusted, more it 
+>> waits before a new request.
+> 
+> I have a few setups where running an ntp daemon is undesired, yet I need to periodically manually set the clock.
+> I have two laptops which is off most of the time, and when I do use them I don't always have a network connection. So I need to set the clock manually using ntpdate when I do have a connection.
+> 
+> If it disappears I will miss it, and most likely look for a replacement, if there is one.
+
+I did mean to (but forgot) switch us to use crony by default as it's
+better for offline drift compensation and such like.
+
+I'll try and remember for mga4 as it's likely too late for mga3.
+
+Col
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