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Re: [PATCH 1/1] services: ntpd: Make large clock adjustments if necessar
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: [PATCH 1/1] services: ntpd: Make large clock adjustments if necessary. |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:12:46 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 07:06:50AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> I think that this should be a configuration item in the service, so that the
> user can decide whether to have it or not. I don't think we should force it
> on the user. Some applications break if the clock makes large jumps.
I agree. This is really something that the system administrator should
evaluate and fix on a case-by-case basis.
> The ntpd authors decided that the default behaviour is not to make large jumps
> so I think we should respect that unless there is a good reason to do
> otherwise.
> So I think this should be configurable in /etc/config.scm and the default
> should
> be not to use -g
For me, I have to do this so rarely (and never on the machines I
currently use) that I am fine with having to run `ntpd -g ...` by hand.
So, if we want to make this configurable in the OS configuration,
volunteers are welcome to work on it :)
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