-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13/08/2010 23:06, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 8/12/2010 8:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Warren Young wrote: >>> >>> The strategy I recommended is based on the fact that its worst case >>> behavior (a small negative jump every hour) is not a problem for me. If >>> it is a problem for your application, you need a different design. >> >> It's a bad idea in the general case. If you have scheduled jobs, ntpdate may >> jump the clock enough to miss the trigger or run them twice, where ntpd always >> tries to move the clock fractional seconds at a time so as not to let that >> happen. Plus, ntpdate does no sanity check at all - if the clock source is >> badly off, the client will follow blindly even if it goes to the wrong century. >> > > Whereas ntpd will simply quietly fail to sync at all if it is more than > a few minutes off. ;) I believe it will not fail if you tell it to tinker panic 0 Regards, Markus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxlYuAACgkQYoWFBIJE9eX6XwCdEx1nr9Q9dSnsfryAe1jHjmq/ 92AAoJEF9++NS2J+i+9/6FQIpstXNhho =5mox -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos