Package: adjtimex Version: 1.26-1 Severity: important
Installing adjtimex should not automatically mess up the system clock. It is a useful tool for printing the kernel clock parameters. * It does not check if something else is syncing the clock. * It does not appear to have sanity checks. * It assumes that the CMOS clock is accurate. This appears to be untrue for my system, whose cmos clock is -20000 ppm (-2%? hmm...) When I want output of adjtimex --print, I should not have to tell people to install adjtimex, fix adjtimex --tick (and possibly --freq), and stop it from running at startup. When I update adjtimex, I should not have to clean up after it, either. If automatically syncinc time is a genuinely useful feature for some people, it should either be selectable at configure time (like e.g. snort) or moved into a separate package. $ dpkg --configure --pending Setting up adjtimex (1.26-1) ... Regulating system clock...done. Comparing clocks (this will take 70 sec)...done. Adjusting system time by -1729.64 sec/day to agree with CMOS clock...done. $ cat /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift -2.296 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages adjtimex depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries adjtimex recommends no packages. Versions of packages adjtimex suggests: ii ntpdate 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-7 client for setting system time fro -- debconf information: adjtimex/run_daemon: true adjtimex/compare_rtc: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
