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The Natural Philosopher[_2_]

wrote:
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 10:32:07 PM UTC+1, The Natural
Philosopher wrote:

[ntpd]
Isnt it wonderful to have an operating system where all this is
just DESIGNED IN from the word go..

You say designed in but ntpd is not a built-in part of any 'operating
system' but rather a 3rd party tool that is optionally installed.

well in that case you could argue that nothing except the linux kernel
is part of linux.

Not even X-windows or a window manager. Nothing. Not even bash or sh.

In fact ALL of linux is '3rd party' because there is no 'Linux company'
that 'supplies one monolithic product'

Few, if any, distributions install ntpd as part of their base
install, not least because the benefits of its use are severely
limited on machines that don't stay continuously on.

hardly.

If anything it is more common to find ntpdate installed and is
usually invoked once at startup. Now that ntpd can perform these
'one-shot' time sets ntpdate will eventually be retired however so we
may start to see ntpd installed by default but perhaps not
automatically run as a daemon.

whatever..
Mathew

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