Automated Shutdown time problem

[Scott Balneaves]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 11:16:54AM -0800, Joseph Hartman wrote:
> I've had a similar issue this week on Karmic (GNOME, x86). I followed the
> howto for the automatic shutdown on two different servers without success.
> The time on the server shows the same as the time on the clients. I did not
> try to install the NTP server.
> 
> This morning I did a third fresh karmic install from the alternate disc,
> installed all updates, created one user for the client, and then tried to
> follow the TCShutdown Howto again. Here are my results:


IIRC, for most NTP servers/implementations, if the delta T gets too big (and
it's right around the two hour mark) the ntp client will refuse to sync up.

The usual way around this would be to run ntpdate -s (to SET the current time
immediately from the NTP source), THEN fire up the ntp client, in order to keep
them in sync.

That's my (possibly mistaken) understanding of it anyway.

Cheers,
Scott

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