ntp by default on servers in Vivid

[C de-Avillez]

On 22/10/14 09:13, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:10:05AM -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote:
>> Could we just switch everything over to ntp?  Is their a downside to
>> this I'm missing?
> 
> Desktop machines may not be online all the time. In this case, ntp won't
> really work very well, and it might be better just to sync the time when
> a connection comes up. ntpdate works better for this case.

Actually, this is not completely correct. NTP does have an option to
make a large change on startup, via the "-g" parameter. This is pretty
much all ntpdate does (sync the clock on net interface startup), so ntpd
can replace ntpdate without any other issues.

Of course, there is still the net interface up calling ntpdate, but this
is not major.

..C..


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