* Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-15 01:48]: > Yeah, ntpdate will do the job, and it's a good bit smaller than the > full ntp-simple package. > The alternative you were thinking of *may* be "chrony".
Maybe, although it seems that ntpdate is signiticantly smaller than chron. > However, keep in mind that NTP, by it's very nature, needs access to > a network time server. The operative word here is "network". If you > don't have access to the global internet, and you don't have an NTP > server on your local network (or you're doing an install without any > network connection at all for some reason) both ntpdate and chrony > will fail. You need to think hard about what you want to do under > those circumstances. Is it acceptable to have the d-i ask for the > address of an NTP server at the same time as it's asking for other > network parameters? For what it's worth, some DHCP servers will We'd obviously only run NTP if the network is available. It's useful on e.g. network installations. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
