Re: Resetting NTP

[David Benfell <benfell_(_at_)_greybeard95a_(_dot_)_com>]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:26:28 +1000, Graeme Lee wrote:
> Put the following 2 lines in your /etc/ntp.conf at the appropriate location
>
> server  127.127.1.0     # local clock
> fudge   127.127.1.0     stratum 10
>
> You'll fall back to the internal rtc (not a perfect solution if it
> suffers from drift) when no other server is available
>
This is good, but...
>
> Mike Ayers wrote:
>
> >    I am on a leased DHCP uplink, so my lease expires every so often
> >and I get a new one.  No problem.  However, whern this happens, ntpd
> >is no longer able to communicate, because it is communitcating over
> >sockets that were opened with the old address.  The simple solution is
> >to shut down and restart ntpd every time the external address
> >changes.  However, ntp runs as root, so there are security issues
> >involved.  I am running the no-ip2 port, and intend to use it to
> >restart ntpd.  The no-ip2 process runs as user nobody.  Before I put a
> >setuid script in a place only nobody can reach, I was wondering if
> >anyone knew a better solution.
> >
I notice in the dhclient.conf man page that there is a script option.
Could one use this to restart ntpd?

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