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  1. Bug #537451
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 537451

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 537451] Re: ntpdate-debian not syncing time

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:02:53PM -0000, Hans-Peter wrote:
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> No problem with continous synchronisation! Problem was: /etc/default/ntpdate says NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes.
> But /etc/ntp.conf does not exist, because ntp is not installed. -> nptdate-debian fails.

ntddate-debian doesn't use /etc/ntp.conf. It uses the time servers listed in /etc/default/ntpdate.

> At least I think so, because my system time was not correct.

ntpdate-debian is run *only* when network interfaces are brought up and will
correct the time *once*. If the system time drifts afterwards nothing will
correct it. If the system ran for a long time with no network interface change
the time could drift a lot.

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Mathias Gug
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