On Saturday 09 June 2007, Joe Barnett wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 09 June 2007, Joe Barnett wrote: > >> Try running "ntpd -gq" at the end of rc.local to sync the clock. > >> Then kick off nptd (with your normal settings) following that. > > > > I'm not sure I understand that - what do you mean by the second > > statement? > > I apologize for the confusion. > > "ntpd -gq" runs the daemon only long enough to sync the clock, then > it quits. Think of ntpdate. Why not just use ntpdate? Good > question. man ntpd indicates that ntpdate is going to be retired at > some point, and that ntpd -q should be used instead. -q seems to > stand for quit (as soon as the clock is adjusted). -g tells ntpd > not to exit with error if the offset is greater than 1000 seconds. > > I am not sure why they want to retire ntpdate as it seems a very > useful tool. Anyway... > > Both the stock ntpd and openntpd have features which should bring > the clock to good time as soon as they get a good feed from one or > more of the servers for which they are configured to use. ntpd -gq, > in theory, should not be needed if either ntpd is going to be run as > a daemon. > > That being said, my experience (with both the stock ntpd and > openntpd) is that it is best to do a gross adjustment first (whether > by ntpd -gq, ntpdate, rdate, etc.) *then* start the daemon. That is > why I use two commands to get my ntp stuff going. > > I hope this helps, thanks, > OK - I've put the two commands into rc.local. Should I be getting rid of ntpd altogether from rc5.d? I had thought of re-numbering it to after wpa_supplicant runs. I've also taken out of rc5.d the starts for NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher. I don't they help with a static connection like this, and they do seem to be hard-coded to run with dhcp - not what I want at all. Finally, I think I may have the answer to the bad signals. iwconfig reports a lot of noise. There is a cordless phone on the wall behind this desk - and the other box that has problems has the phone base unit not far from it. Anne
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