chrony as default NTP client?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Yaakov M. Nemoy
<loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:15:03PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
>> I find that having NTP enabled in most cases for mobile systems is simply
>> unnecessary; there is a large (I would say upwards of 95% in my most
>> unscientific guessings) chance that these users aren't going to be doing
>> anything which requires their clocks to be synced with any amount of
>> precision. And if they are, they should _know_ that and be able to set up
>> a tool (whether it is NTP or Crony) themselves.
>
> I guess you've never had to debug Kerberos before. Luckily, neither
> have i, so i'm not one to talk. There are a number of apps that are

I have. The users who end up with the most problems are laptop users.
I wonder if windows basically does a forced 'get my time right from
sources' when it awakes as I rarely had issues with AD/windows boxes
on it... but other OS's have that problem. I believe that SSL will
also have problems in some use cases if the clocks are too off.. but
that might have been Kerb related also.

> pretty dependent on the clocks being in sync with each other to a
> degree. Granted, not everyone is running all those apps, but then it
> begs the question why Fedora provides so much out of the box in the
> first place. Let's assume that NTP is probably a good thing to support
> out of the box on most machines, assuming we can support it right in
> the first place.
>
> -Yaakov
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