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Re: ntp config tech note
From: "C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen () richweb com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:37:23 -0400 (EDT)
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.
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- ntp config tech note Randy Bush (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Tony Li (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Randy Bush (May 20)
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- Re: ntp config tech note Kevin Oberman (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Robert E. Seastrom (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Simon Lockhart (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Randy Bush (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Jared Mauch (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note James Edwards (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note C. Jon Larsen (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Jared Mauch (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Adrian Chadd (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note C. Jon Larsen (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Adrian Chadd (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Randy Bush (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note sthaug (May 21)
- Re: ntp config tech note C. Jon Larsen (May 21)
- Re: ntp config tech note Eric A. Hall (May 21)
- Re: ntp config tech note Mike Leber (May 24)
- Re: ntp config tech note Crist Clark (May 21)
- Re: ntp config tech note Randy Bush (May 20)
- Re: ntp config tech note Tony Li (May 20)