At 3:32 PM +0200 2005-09-01, Brad Knowles wrote:
I couldn't
even get them to agree to run ntpd instead of ntpdate on the python.org machines, because that's not what was provided in the Debian packages.
Sorry, it's not just a matter of what is provided in the Debian
packages. It's also a matter that they feel that good timesync is not important for us, and therefore they don't want to run ntpd.
All arguments from Thomas Akin's book "Hardening Cisco Routers"
(see http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardcisco/chapter/ch10.html), or http://www.net.berkeley.edu/time/, http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/InfoTech/Support/data/time.htm, http://www.spirit.com/Network/net0701.html, or even the Linux Administrators Guide at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/ntp.html, were not enough to convince them that good time sync is important.
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