*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1206164 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1206164
Chasing down more bugs I came by recently there is a lot of pro/con
about this.
The Summary related to this bug is:
The general behavior is depending on the time difference. If the time
differences off a lot it (has to) step time, otherwise (which should be what
happens) it drifts. It is considered valid configured time sources that a new
change should not cause a huge new diff.
For environments where this "considered to be normal" case does not
apply we will provide an option to disable the auto-update. I'll dup
this (be aware that on recent releases one has to care about timedatectl
separately if that is used instead of ntpdate).
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1206164
/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate does not detach correctly
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75347
Title:
ntp script steps time
Status in ntp package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Distro Release: Dapper
Package: ntp
Description:
The clock of one of my routers running Dapper had bogus time (something that
ntpd was slowly but steadily working on). Then I added an interface and boom!
the time was stepped. OSPF went into an retarded state, loosing random routes
and everything was going crazy.
After the ordeal was over I found the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate
script, where time is stepped _every_ time interfaces go up/down.
This is probably okay on a laptop or something, but it's madness to do
so on a server. I sure know OSPF isn't the only service that gets
really confused when the clock leaps.
There's actually a reason why the manual page of ntpdate says the
following about the -b option: «This option should be used when
called from a startup file at boot time.»
I've now deinstalled ntpdate (it served no purpose anyway since I have
ntpd), but really, this package should not be part of the default
server installation with this behaviour.
DESIRED FIX:
In my humble opinion use of the «-b» option should be dropped from server
installs, or (even better) ntpdate should be run only as part of the bootup
sequence, leaving clock synch to ntpd afterwards.
Tore
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