[axxs-sysadmin] wrong time on axxs.org - ntpdate?

[boud]

i turned off  ntpd  and put in a cron.daily job to run  ntpdate 
instead.  i didn't touch the timezone, which remains UTC-6.

You can test this with e.g.

TZ=GMT LC_ALL=C date             # UTC

TZ=America/Merida LC_ALL=C date  # UTC-6

Most sites should already use locale info to correct from UTC-6 to UTC
or whatever the preferred TZ is.


On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Dave Fregon wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:48 +1300, Sebastian wrote:
>> kia ora koutou...
>>
>> boud just made me and others aware in #axxs that the server is running
>> approx. 2 hours ahead in time. check with the command:
>>
>> TZ=GMT LC_ALL=C date
>>
>> on the server and on a trustworthy machine of your choice (e.g. your
>> localhost).
>>
>> this might cause weird behaviour by processes acting with the rest of
>> the world outside axxs.org. what do people think about installing stuff
>> like ntpdate to keep in sync?
>
> I think it's a good idea Sebastian, and it's already installed just not
> running? It _was_ setup, maybe an update has had it switched off?
>
> In Plesk admin, under Server / System Date and Time it just needs the
> time server and a checkbox selected, then save.

i tried the plesk interface "network server" checkbox, but it failed
(probably because the ntpd was running - no idea if that was plesk's
"fault" or not). Then i tried the "reset system time" checkbox, but it
didn't interact with the network server option, and instead got
horribly confused and made a big offset in time (many hours earlier
than the correct time). i corrected it within a few minutes. So a
small number of timestamps may be badly wrong by many hours.  Sorry
about that. /me blames plesk.

The ntpdate script should now start up at boot

rc3.d/S59ntpdate -> ../init.d/ntpdate

and once a day by cron and the ntpd script has been turned off by
hand with "exit 0" in the script.

IMHO this ought to work and be stable.

pozdr
boud


> We should however talk to the sites on the server to see if they are not
> conpensating for this in their code first?
>
> Dave
>
>>
>> cheers,
>>  Sebastian
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