[OpenAFS] SuSe-RPMs
Russ Allbery
rra@stanford.edu
28 Sep 2001 13:38:02 -0700
Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
> The alternative, which I believe is preferable, is to _always_ provide
> -nosettime unless the user explicitly sets an option in
> /etc/sysconfig/afs which requests that AFS handle time synchronization.
> The rationale for this is that as only one of many applications that
> desire authentication and/or synchronized time, AFS has no business
> messing with the clock.
I'm in favor of this approach, particularly given that AFS doesn't do that
good of a job of setting the clock (I believe it always jumps and never
skews).
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>