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moggleif · Post by **moggleif** » 18 Aug 2007, 15:05

NTP should be installed on shipment, of course as a cronjob.
Or will there be problem because worldwide costumers?

Maybe a webinterface to pick timezone and ntp-server?

Cheeseboy · Post by **Cheeseboy** » 18 Aug 2007, 15:28

Hi,

It would be nice if it came out of the box, but it wasn't that hard to remedy thanks to a helpful member of this forum...
http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=132

Cheers

Nik

Post by **tor** » 18 Aug 2007, 16:08

Hi moggleif and Cheeseboy,

Of course have we thought on providing NTP out of the box. The thing that stopped us however is that we cant be certain that a user has constant internet access. But either do it as a cron-job or as a service that has to be enabled in the UI could perhaps solve that problem.

/Tor

moggleif · Post by **moggleif** » 18 Aug 2007, 18:21

Cheeseboy: I have installed it and that's why I posted it as a feature request. I believe that everyone wants to know what time it is and like to have it automatically synchronized.

Tor: I think that 99% of the bubba customers has internet connection 24/7, don't you?

Ubi · Post by **Ubi** » 19 Aug 2007, 04:38

Why run ntp as cron when the ntpd is perfectly capable of doing this for you in a much smarter fashion?

koenig · Post by **koenig** » 28 Aug 2007, 08:35

Cheeseboy wrote: It would be nice if it came out of the box, but it wasn't that hard to remedy thanks to a helpful member of this forum...
http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=132

I tried that but the command

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apt-get ntpdate

failed on me; there was no such package. Do I have to add some repositories to the apt configuration or should this work just out of the box?
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Post by **tor** » 29 Aug 2007, 02:09

HI koenig,

NTP is not present in our repository so you have to enable the Debian sources before you install NTP. (And dont forget to disable them afterwards)

A short howto on installing packages from Debian can be found here: http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=421

/Tor

mountaindude · Post by **mountaindude** » 31 Aug 2007, 03:02

And I can confirm that the short instructions at http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=132 worked like a charm...

But you do need to edit the Debian source files, like tor mentions.

dsp76 · Post by **dsp76** » 31 Aug 2007, 03:11

Hi,

Ubi wrote:Why run ntp as cron when the ntpd is perfectly capable of doing this for you in a much smarter fashion?

... could you please elaborate a bit more about it? Why is it smarter?

Thanks
dsp76

Okay - explanation to myself: ntpd is a daemon constantly running, thus its not required to repeatedly issue a command.

Correct explanation?