[gobolinux-users] automatically fetching the time

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On Nov 27, 2007 12:02 PM, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
> > Hi There wrote:
> >
> > > OpenNTPD works fine for me, try that instead.
> >
> > it doesn't seem to actually change the system time, as far as I can
> > tell, even though it claims to, for me - see log at end of e-mail
> >
>
> Works fine here.  I add the -s option so it'll affect a large change
> (>180s) right away.
>
> OpenNTPD does small changes to avoid time jumps.  Second paragraph in
> 'man ntpd'.  Basically it doesn't want to confuse the system by sudden
> changes.
>
> OpenNTPD is only 132K.  The recipe has a sane config; doesn't listen
> to broadcast, uses pool.ntp.org (won't DoS wisc.edu, my alma mater :-)
> ).  I'd like this on the LiveCD (probably 015) and enabled by default.
>  Any objections?

I believe it doesn't go crazy when no internet connection is
available, right? If that's true, I don't have any objections.

-- 
Lucas
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