[clug] forcing ntpdate timeout with no network

Dale Shaw dale.shaw at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 22:46:47 MST 2009


Hi,

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 14:33 +1100, Dale Shaw wrote:
>> Have you considered running ntpd as a daemon (only)? [...] Not sure I really understand the benefit of an ntpdate-on-boot
>> on a system with a real time clock.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Ben Nizette <bn at niasdigital.com> wrote:
> Yeah but [I] don't have an RTC :-D  It's a little embedded board and quite poorly
> designed; I've ensured the next revision will be all clock'd up but
> doesn't help just yet.

There's a couple of well-known sayings about assumptions that come to
mind -- my apologies! :-)

cheers,
Dale


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