On 18 January 2013, at 18:08, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-01-17, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:47:17 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> By default, ntpd doesn't seem to want to do >>> a step correction to fix large clock errors on startup (there's >>> probably an option for that). >> >> That's for ntp-client to do. > > In additon to being a server, ntpd _is_ an ntp client. > > Are you talking about running ntpclient > (http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient) instead of ntpd?
I'm pretty sure he's talking about making larger corrections to fix larger clock errors on startup. I believe I have both ntpd and ntp-client in the default runlevel on at least one system, although I won't swear to it. Stroller.
