On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Yaakov M. Nemoy <loupgaroublond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:15:03PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: >> I find that having NTP enabled in most cases for mobile systems is simply >> unnecessary; there is a large (I would say upwards of 95% in my most >> unscientific guessings) chance that these users aren't going to be doing >> anything which requires their clocks to be synced with any amount of >> precision. And if they are, they should _know_ that and be able to set up >> a tool (whether it is NTP or Crony) themselves. > > I guess you've never had to debug Kerberos before. Luckily, neither > have i, so i'm not one to talk. There are a number of apps that are I have. The users who end up with the most problems are laptop users. I wonder if windows basically does a forced 'get my time right from sources' when it awakes as I rarely had issues with AD/windows boxes on it... but other OS's have that problem. I believe that SSL will also have problems in some use cases if the clocks are too off.. but that might have been Kerb related also. > pretty dependent on the clocks being in sync with each other to a > degree. Granted, not everyone is running all those apps, but then it > begs the question why Fedora provides so much out of the box in the > first place. Let's assume that NTP is probably a good thing to support > out of the box on most machines, assuming we can support it right in > the first place. > > -Yaakov > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
