Time Updates

[Larry Hartman]

On Sunday 07 September 2008 05:23:09 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> Larry Hartman wrote:
> > I am running WICD rather than KNetworkManager because it works much
> > better for
> > my wifi model.  It does not seem to set up its connection until late in
> > the user login process.
>
> neither does knetworkmanager.
>
> > Could this be the culprit?  If so, will your edits to
> > the NTPdate config file work in this situation?
>
> It makes no difference.  The ntpdate package contains the
> file /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate which is run whenever a network interface
> is brought up.  As long as ntpdate is finding a time server, this should be
> setting the time as soon as the network comes up
> --
> derek
My ntpdate file:

# The settings in this file are used by the program ntpdate-debian, but not
# by the upstream program ntpdate.

# Set to "yes" to take the server list from /etc/ntp.conf, from package ntp,
# so you only have to keep it in one place.
NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes

# List of NTP servers to use  (Separate multiple servers with spaces.)
# Not used if NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF is yes.
NTPSERVERS="north-america.pool.ntp.org ntp.ubuntulinux.org pool.ntp.org"

# Additional options to pass to ntpdate
NTPOPTIONS="-u -v"


.....I checked and discovered that there is no /etc/ntp.conf file on my 
system.  This tells me that ntpdate was not reaching out to any servers.  I 
have since switched the "yes" to "no" and am watching to see if this is now 
resolved.  I also added your options that you posted previously.


larry