State of the microserver HOWTO

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:24:36 -0700
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> > I made it nobody, mod 777, and still no luck  
> 
> I'm not sure what "no luck" means.

# ls -l /var/lib/ntp/
total 0


> It doesn't get written at shutdown.

Well, that would be dumb not to.  It also means my tests of the
parameter are not valid...

>  I think ntp-classic used to do
> that a long time ago.  I remember some comments about fixing it.  I
> don't remember the reasoning.

Chronyd uses the date stamp on the driftfile as a check against bad
RTC on startup.  Chrony also puts the error bounds in the driftfile.

RGDS
GARY
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