quick status check

[Amar Takhar]

On 2015-12-14 18:17 -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> verm at darkbeer.org said:
> > I also have new hardware here to get operational testing done where I can
> > launch  ntpd and at least check that is keeping correct time.  I will also
> > individually  check each binary and various options. 
> 
> Are the buildbot machines running ntpd?  That would be a nice way to sanity 
> check things on a good collection of environments.

The issue with doing this is it's difficult to get repeatable builds on the 
timestamps.  This is why I bought a bunch of hardware where I don't care what 
the timestamps are.  I will set it up to take the timestamp from the master when 
running tests versus the worker.


> I don't know much about VM, but the one sample I work with keeps pretty good 
> time.

You're right at the start setting the time to a wrong amount and seeing if ntpd 
keeps it in sync will work.  I'm looking for offset testing where we do it for < 
10sec, 1 day, 1 week.  This way we know what's going on every 7 days max.

I still haven't worked it out fully but I'm close!  We can always make changes 
to suite our needs after.


Amar.