[plug] NTP update problems - dialup

[Gavin Rogers]

At 10:25 AM 29/03/2005, you wrote:
>Once again I'm having problems getting synchronisation with a time
>server. What I have down is right a small script and put it in
>/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ so that it is run last (so all the routing stuff is done.)
>The script is as follows.
>#!/bin/sh
>
>((echo "Updating Time";date; sleep 1; /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u -d -v
>pool.ntp.org 2>&1; echo $?;date) | mail -s "Updating Time" webmaster) &

Seems to be an awfully complex way to solve the problem. Why not just use 
ntpd and stop/start it when your dialup connection is active? (you could 
probably leave it going all the time but ntpd can take ages to realise it's 
peers are available again)


Regards,

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