[70634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ntp config tech note
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C. Jon Larsen)
Thu May 20 18:38:09 2004
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:37:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen@richweb.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20040520213322.GA32355@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
>
> I've found it useful on older machines (PCs with cheap clocks and
> oscilators) to cron ntpdate once an hour to prevent the clock from
> getting too far off by itself. I've found the daemon doesn't do good enough
> of a job to sync on it's own...
Isn't that a lot safer anyway than running a daemon (ntpd) as root ? I do
this on my systems (run ntpdate from cron), even though the xntpd
docs IIRC specifically advised against this hack. One less
vulnerability waiting to be exploited ... is the way I see it.
