[ntp:questions] solaris rtp program and ntp

wa6zvp wa6zvp at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 17:42:28 UTC 2007


On Apr 9, 9:29 am, csgo... at yahoo.com (Christine Ross) wrote:
> I am setting up ntp clients on solaris 8 and 10 servers.  The default cron job run rtp program.  In my reading, I see that "the daemon will abort itself if the offset between its clock and the serer's clock is too great" and that offset is 17 minutes.
>
>   Will my daemon stop if the rtc program has run and there is a large difference in the clocks?  Do I disable this cronjob
>
>   1 2 * * * [ -x /usr/sbin/rtc ] && /usr/sbin/rtc -c > /dev/null 2>&1
>
>   Thank you
>   Christine
>

Christine,
 I don't know anything about Solaris, but my google reading indicates
that this is a program that only messes with TZ to handle DST, and
does not do anything to the actual local internal clock.

So my thoughts are that it can stay as is.

Roger




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