[ntp:questions] driftfile write frequency setting?
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Mon Jul 25 13:09:30 UTC 2005
Devin Bayer wrote:
> Hello. I would like my laptop's HDD to go to sleep, but ntpd writes
> it's driftfile hourly. If there anyway I can make it only write the
> file daily, or only when it quits? I have searched the internet for
> some kind of solution but nobody seems to be asking the same question.
> I realize I could disable the driftfile completely, but that is a last
> resort solution.
>
Is there an issue about not writing the driftfile? There is no bad
side-effect to failing to write the file. To change this would require a
change to the source code and I seem to recall that it gets updated
whenever the drift amount changes rather than just once per hour.
Danny
> Thanks,
> Devin Bayer
>
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