Jimmy Wales wrote:
Just a thought: in the past, I have always had good results from using 'rdate' on a chron. If you set the clock once a day, it never varies by more than a second or two, which is very much close enough for our purposes.
Real ntp software is amazing, but really overkill for our purposes? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I don't think it's overkill, given NTP's ease of use. Points in favour: * Most Linux distributions include NTP * It only requires one small config file to be set up and then runs unobtrusively ever after. * It's significantly more accurate and reliable than ad-hoc timing solutions, and * It's resistant to errors in the up-stream time servers, using a voting algorithm to resist bogus time settings * It won't step the clock backwards, which can be a pain for databases and backups
I'd be glad to help you with the setup, if you want.
Neil