Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

[Justin]

Stroller schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> I just logged into one of my machines that has recently been powered
> down for a few days - not a terribly common occurrence with my servers -
> to find a date of January 30th showing.
>
> I used to run ntp-client, but AIUI adding this to the default runlevel
> only sets the clock once at boot up. Of course the problem with that is
> that the computer's clock can become inaccurate if the spring tension is
> weak, as is obviously the case in my older PCs.
>
> So a while back I changed /etc/runlevels/default so that ntpd is started
> instead.
>
> I understood that ntpd was not only a server for my LAN (a facility I
> don't use) but that it would also periodically check the time with
> upstream servers & keep the machine's clock in constant sync.
>
> So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd
> appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date remained the
> same. Stopping ntpd & starting ntp-client corrected the date immediately.
>
> Before I do any investigation, can someone tell me if my understanding
> so far is correct? Is ntpd supposed to keep the machine's clock in
> constant sync, or is it only (say) a server to offer the date to
> clients? (depending upon the clock being set correctly by other means) I
> thought I had configured ntpd with upstream servers separately from
> ntp-client.
>
> Stroller.
>

pkg_postinst() {
	ewarn "You can find an example /etc/ntp.conf in /usr/share/ntp/"
	ewarn "Review /etc/ntp.conf to setup server info."
	ewarn "Review /etc/conf.d/ntpd to setup init.d info."
	echo
	elog "The way ntp sets and maintains your system time has changed."
	elog "Now you can use /etc/init.d/ntp-client to set your time at"
	elog "boot while you can use /etc/init.d/ntpd to maintain your time"
	elog "while your machine runs"