Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Was the system clock ever warped more than 1024 seconds under these
> circumstances? If so, I think that it would cause xntpd to exit, but I
> have not actually tried it.
Hmm... circumstancial evidence says that yes, this kills xntpd.
I guess the right thing to do for this would be to always restart
xntpd after running ntpdate.
start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/xntpd
(
# xntpd won't start if ntpdate is running
# ntpdate may hang under some circumstances
ntpdate -bs `awk '/^[ ]*server/{print $2}'`
# xntpd may exit if clock slews more than 1024 seconds
start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/xntpd 2>/dev/null
) &
Does ntpdate really hang? This approach is fundamentally clunky.
--
Raul
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