[arch-general] hwclock and openntpd

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Sat Jun 4 03:44:34 EDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 03:06 -0400, Yclept Nemo wrote:
> Perhaps openntpd does not set the hwclock. Therefore, should openntpd
> be used in conjuction with the hwclock daemon? 

That's true, and that's also the reason why Openntpd doesn't play well
with Xen where all guest VMs will take over the clock from the host VM.
With the normal ntp distribution that works, but with Openntpd you need
something to push the changes to the hwclock.



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