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Re: ntp config tech note

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Thu May 20 16:43:36 2004

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:52:11 PDT
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 20 May 2004 13:06:37 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> One minor (operational! -- gasp) addition:
> 
> More modern copies of ntpd have a '-g' option that will allow
> the clock to jump once at boot time.

If you have not told the kernel to refuce to change the time when the
system is in multiuser mode for security reasons.

-Peter

There is an easy workaround, just make sure your local clock in the
computer is as close to UTC as you can....


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