Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:41:49 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: Renai LeMay <renail@ausisp.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <200104300341.f3U3fnE54066@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20010430131440.A7309@itouchnz.itouch>
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:14:40 +1200 Jonathan Chen wrote:
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| On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:10:22AM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote:
| > also, can anyone comment for me on the relative importance/unimportance of
| > running ntpd?
|
| Depends on the type of systems you're running. If the correct time is
| of importance (eg: timestamps for logs, billing), and you're running
| several production machines; it's essential to make sure all machines
| are in synch so you *know* when something happened.
|
| Just my 2 cents.
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I would agree. It's surprising how useful it is to be able to trust the
clock on system. Still unless you have a persistant connection to the
internet it's probably not worth running ntpd. Just running ntpdate to a
reliable server when the line is dialed up should be enough.
chris
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