The libevent issue (Was: Re: checking in)

[Hal Murray]

esr at thyrsus.com said:
>> ntpdig is the ntpdate replacement.  It's often used as part of the
>> boot time startup tangle.  CentOS 7 does that.

> Are you sure? I did a check on major distributions in the debate around
> dropping ntpdate.  I'm pretty sure I checked Fedora and they were launching
> with ntpd -g like everybody else. 

Anything ntp related on my systems has been hacked to run whatever I'm 
testing and/or some of my systems have been upgraded from many releases ago 
and who knows what got left behind.  So I could easily be confused.

Did you check CentOS as compared to Fedora?

In any case, we need a how-to-start-ntpd document that covers all the issues. 
 The ones I know about are:
  the initial time may be way off
  wait until the time gets set
  start up as fast as possible
  data bases freak out if time goes backwards




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