[Freeipa-devel] ntp

[michael gregg]

Rob Crittenden wrote:

> We should require ntp be running in order to install IPA. I was 
> thinking we could check the output of ntpq -p:
>
> 1. If ntpq is not installed, quit
> 2. If ntpq returns "Connection refused" quit
> 3. If ntpq returns a list of peers, continue
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Should we include an ntp configuration for clients as well?
>
> rob
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I think it would be best to have ntpd as a rpm dependency.

Providing a warning that ntpd may be misconfigured (along with a 
description of why that is bad when ntpq does not return a list of 
peers) would be nice.

And supplying a sample ntp.conf for clients would be a very good thing.

Michael-


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