From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 29 18:15:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A6F37B42C for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3U1Eeu07749; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:14:40 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:14:40 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Renai LeMay Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd Message-ID: <20010430131440.A7309@itouchnz.itouch> References: <0104301110220D.03494@linuxbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0104301110220D.03494@linuxbox>; from renail@ausisp.net on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:10:22AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:10:22AM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > also, can anyone comment for me on the relative importance/unimportance of > running ntpd? Depends on the type of systems you're running. If the correct time is of importance (eg: timestamps for logs, billing), and you're running several production machines; it's essential to make sure all machines are in synch so you *know* when something happened. Just my 2 cents. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message