[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 05/05/12 17:15 did gyre and gimble:
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> This is why the kernel will automatically does the sync for you every 12
>> minutes when an ntp daemon is running. This is the recommended method.
> 
> How does the kernel know when an ntp daemon is running in user space?  Does it work with chrony, or only ntpd?

I don't know the internals. It works with either chrony or ntpd.

>> So unless we have a proper frame of reference, (user set time, ntp
>> protocol time) then there should be no manual sync.
> 
> Does the kernel then sync the hwclock when you change the time manually, including with rdate or ntpdate?

It won't do it automatically when doing that. It's really up to whatever
tool changes the date/time to do that as needed I think.

Col



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