Dune Parody skit. Was RE: whitewigs

[D. Hageman]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> On Tue, March 22, 2005 4:02 pm, Gerald Combs said:
>> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
>>> Ntp doesn't guarantee correct time, it's just another way to screw it
>>> up.
>
>> It _does_ guarantee that you have the same time as a server or a set of
>> peers, within a given tolerance.  This is helpful if you want to
>> correlate log data on different hosts, or run "make" in an NFS-mounted
>> directory.
>
> That's if/when it's configured and working correctly.  Then it'll even
> provide the correct date for your email timestamps.  That's not
> necessarily a given though.
>
> I had a system that, because I was relying on ntp, and because ntp was
> confirured correctly when I checked after setting it up, was six hours off
> after subsequent reboots.  Gentoo had, in the absence of useful data from
> the DHCP server, overwritten the valid ntp config file with default
> garbage.  (This is the default behavior for gentoo.)  Caveat admin.

*cough* Works well on RedHat systems since like ... 6.0 *cough*

:-)

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