Re: Client time/date synchronisation

[roman.meier@gismap.ch]

Hi Wolfgang,

I just checked the content of /etc/ntp.conf of my "diskless workstation" client. No line "server ntp" has been appended.

Guess that explains the problem I'm having, right?

Kind regards,
Roman

> On 04/20/2021 5:28 PM Wolfgang Schweer <w.schweer@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi Roman,
> 
> [ roman.meier@gismap.ch, 2021-04-20 ]
> > Fact is that my LTSP clients don't have the correct time if the server 
> > has no internet connection, which may be perfectly normal, right?
> 
> No, it should work.
>  
> > There's none on the client in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ntp.conf though.
> 
> LTSP modifies the setting at client startup. A line 'server ntp' should 
> be appended at the end of ntp.conf. The value 'ntp' is fetched from LDAP 
> (ltspConfig: TIMESERVER=ntp).
> 
> Replace ntp with auto and check if it makes a difference (less flexible, 
> but no name resolution needed in this case).
> 
> Wolfgang