[CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron
Lamar Owen
lowen at pari.edu
Fri Mar 4 21:17:03 UTC 2011
On Friday, March 04, 2011 04:05:43 pm m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Excuse me? The last time I was following this closely, and I think the
> last time I looked, about a year ago, they said the opposite, that the
> guest, if running Linux, should use ntp.
>
> Right:
> NTP Recommendations
> Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time
> synchronization. Also, you may need to open the firewall (UDP 123) to
> allow NTP traffic.
> at
Argh, they've changed it..... Last I read that page the recommendation was opposite to that. Although I remember the clock=pit part of that, and the divider=10 piece....
But I remember a couple of years ago reading the opposite about NTP....
Oh well, just goes to show that best practices change, although I have had fairly good results from VMware with the VMware tools sync, where I did not at that time have good results with NTP in the guest. On ESX 3.0.x and later ESX 3.5.
Well, time to go redo some things, I guess. We have a GPS-disciplined physical box as one of the three NTP masters we use....
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