On Saturday 26 March 2011 01:16 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan<[email protected]> > wrote: >> 2011/3/24 jtd<[email protected]>: >>> You might want to add ntpdate to maintain proper time. >> ntpd, you mean. ntpdate cannot substitute for a properly configured >> ntpd. It is only a one-off time adjuster (usually a precursor to >> ntpd's startup). > +1 for ntpd. > > I found out the hard way. dovecot would keep stopping in a mail > server. After some investigation I correlated the dovecot stops to a > cron job that ran ntpdate to adjust the system time. Installed ntpd, > removed the ntpdate cron entries and dovecot worked happily > thereafter. > > Now I run ntpd in all my systems in "client" mode. They all point to > one "server" mode ntpd on the LAN. The LAN ntp "server" references > from ntp.pool.org time servers. > >
I am curious to know, if there is a single machine and uses ntpd as a client for the main ntp.pool.org server then suppose the internet is down, what time will the computer reference to? The reason I ask this is that my Reliance CDMA phone sets its clock on the time from the tower. When there is no signal in an area and I start the mobile, it show me 2355 at any time of the day, till it gets a signal tower. I can't let it happen in the comp. -- As a proper list etiquette..... Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Members do not want to waste time answering same queries that may have been answered on other lists. Replies from other lists, to cross posted mails are not available to our members. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Do not re-use old messages to write new ones. For new messages, create a new message. Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
