[luau] turning off radhat services

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Mon Mar 31 19:58:00 PST 2003


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:50:46PM -0500, MonMotha wrote:
> tburns at despammed.com wrote:
> >ntpd            network time protocol daemon, has been a security hole, 
> >probably off.
> 
> This should be able to drop privilages if coded properly, but leave it off 
> if you don't need it.  This is only needed if you want to be a time SERVER, 
> not to sync your time.

For those clients that need accurate time, I recommend running
ntpdate at boot and then ntpd as a service. NTP was written to to
keep time current and avoid a rapid time shift (like when you run
ntpdate out of cron).

-Vince



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