[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] start ntpd and synchronize the date first

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 06:43 -0500, Paul Batkowski wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:
>         This is to avoid nasty problems with certificates, LDAP
>         entries creation
>         dates, password expiration dates, account expiration dates,
>         and in
>         short, any dates :)
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> Maybe there shoud also be a check whether this is a virtualized guest
> or not before running ntpd? For example, if you are running freeipa
> inside of a para-virtualized guest on Xen, it doesn't make sense to
> run ntpd inside the domU

There is option -N in that case. Admin responsibility IMO.

Simo.

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