ntpd, chrony [was: Re: [plug] Backimg up entire drive]

[James Devenish]

In message <20040105111934.GA26036 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:19:34PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Chrony...can be told when you're connected or disconnected from a
> network[1]
[...]
> [1] In the particular case of Debian and a PPP internet connection,
> this is done automatically.  Otherwise some (trivial) shell scripting
> is called for.

Oh, well, that does sound like a good idea!

> It also lets you see how different your clock is to the NTP time without
> forcing a discontinuous "jump" in the system clock like ntpdate does.
> e.g.:

FYI: ntpdate -q

> Ooh, cheers, I discovered a new command!
> 
> $ pgrep ntp

I'm going to forget you said that, because the thought of life without
pgrep is too tragic to consider!