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Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > Debian says that ntpd doesn't start automatically nor even provide an > init.d script because the maintainer can't find a solution that works > sufficiently broadly. Result, "apt-get install ntp" doesn't have > quite the intended behavior. Sadly, the distro doesn't include any > sample scripts for init.d/, either. That's funny, /etc/init.d/ntp-server (start|stop) works for me. I'll grant that I must pay attention to if its running after reboot. > Rather than spend the time to make a robust /etc/init.d/ntp-client, I > just added the following to my root crontab: > > 23 4 * * * /etc/init.d/ntpdate start 2>&1 >/dev/null > > Does this seem somehow to be a bad move? As someone involved with the NTP pool project, I say it's not the prefered behavior. It tends to cause the servers to take a beating, especially when people set cron to run once an hour at :00. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug