[ntp:questions] Re: ntpd, boot time, and hot plugging

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sat Feb 5 01:12:04 UTC 2005


At 8:02 PM +0000 2005-02-04, Per Hedeland wrote:

>  As has been pointed out many times here, there's no need to have a LOCAL
>  clock configured for that - ntpd will do it anyway. The only reason to
>  have a LOCAL clock configured is if you need ntpd to serve time to
>  others in this situation.

	I described the behaviour that I have personally experienced.

	No more, no less.

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