Dune Parody skit. Was RE: whitewigs

[Jack]

Strange, I never had any problems with ntp when I was
running gentoo. Setting it up in debian was a 
no brainer, and I never have any problems with my time
being off by very much. Ntp is a great tool to have,
but it's missing one thing: a plug-in for displaying
Aztec dates and times.

Brian D.

--- 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 ... 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.
> 


		
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