[plug] NTP update problems - dialup

[Timothy White]

Gavin Rogers wrote:

> 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)

I need to run ntpd all the time and synchronise the clock when the
dialup connection is up. I really need a time server that doesn't need
peers but I will have to look into that later.

All the above script does is run '/usr/sbin/ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org
2>&1' to update the time. The rest is for debugging.

Tim

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