On 2013-01-18, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:08:50 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> >> By default, ntpd doesn't seem to want to do
>> >> a step correction to fix large clock errors on startup (there's
>> >> probably an option for that).
>> >
>> > That's for ntp-client to do.
>>
>> In additon to being a server, ntpd _is_ an ntp client.
>
> But ntpd will not handle large jumps in time, such as when booting
> with a broken CMOS clock. So you run /etc/init.d/ntp-client as well,
> which gets the clock right at boot time, then ntpd can keep it right.
Doh!
I couldn't find a package named ntp-client or a program named
ntp-client and didn't think to look in /etc/init.d...
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