I am building NTP 4.2.8p15 with glibc 2.34. The build fails with error: Answer The problem is answered here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/74690 Since glibc 2.34 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer a compile time constant so can not be used in preprocessor comparisons which causes the compilation failure [1]. Th…
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Stop timesyncd from polling hard coded Debian timeservers
The systemd-timesyncd daemon repeatedly tries to contact the following hard coded (compiled) time servers if neither an NTP server is specified manually nor one received via DHCP: Since I’m operating behind a corporate proxy, it will never be successful to reach these servers. Is there a way to prevent …
Confusion about how linux and ntpd deal with time
I am running an NTP-Server on my lubuntu 15.04 box. The server uses the local system clock as its only time source. /etc/ntp.conf Timezone of the server is GMT+1 (due to summertime it results in UTC+2 at the moment). When I set the clock using date I see the time is 00:00:00 which is fine. If a ntp-client que…