Major Clock Drift

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Josh Pollak)]

On Aug 26, 2004, at 4:00 PM, Matthew Valites wrote:

>
>> Isn't ntpd the ntp server? I don't want my workstation being an ntp 
>> server all the time... Maybe I'm confused about how ntpd works.
>
> ntpd is just the ntp client running as a daemon.  You most likly have 
> a few daemons running on your machine (kjournald, xinetd, acpid, 
> cupsd, crond, etc.)
> ~Matt

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but to prefer to keep the number of daemons to 
a minimum. For example, I try not to run cupsd unless I must. KDE can 
connect to a remote cupsd, and since I don't have any local printers, 
there's no point in running it locally. I just didn't realize that ntpd 
was also the ntp client.

I still don't get how my clock could have 4 seconds of drift in a 
single day. Is that normal?

-Josh