[hblug] Re: IPcop

[Fraser Burns]

Is 48 hours with IPcop on and about 3 hours actually connected to the 
ISP enough?

The gui page is still trying to Synch.

It shouldn't require me to do a manual stop and restart should it?
Fraser


Michael Adams wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:00:14 +1300
>Fraser Burns wrote:
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>>/etc/ntp.conf:
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>>restrict default nomodify noquery
>># server  127.127.1.0
>>server nz.pool.ntp.org
>>fudge   127.127.1.0 stratum 10
>>driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
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>>So this does still had the old pool address.
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>>Originally I had assumed that IPCop Gui wrote to this file, but it 
>>doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. So why 2 different 
>>configurations? It wouldn't be so surprising if it was a general
>>purpose Linux, but as a dedicated IPCop machine/system it seems
>>bizare. Fraser
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>Edit it manually. The admin login may not have the rights to alter
>this config file. Should fix the issue, fingers-crossed.
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>I also read that if the driftfile (/etc/ntp/drift) doesnt exist then
>ntpd will query the ntp.server then query it again 15 minutes later to
>establish the local machines drift. In that 15 minutes ntpd will not
>update the system time. So if you turn on your box then login to the ntp
>gui webpage and say "go now", you may have to wait 15 m1inutes for
>something to happen, then refresh the ipcop ntp webpage. How patient
>were you?
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