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On 03/03/2012 11:19 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 03.03.2012 17:50, schrieb Mikkel L. Ellertson:
>
> On 03/03/2012 10:13 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> Whatever you theorize, here is what happened. The hardware clock
>> was set to UTC, and the software clock was local time. However, the
>> UTC box in system-config-date was not checked. Result was cups
>> browsing did not work properly and ntpd would crash shortly after
>> starting
>
> ntpd would not really crash - it would exit with an error because
> the time difference was too great
and the practical difference is?
An error message in the logs about why it exited. It makes it much
easier to troubleshoot why it quit.
Besides, a program crash indicates bad programming, while an error
exit shows the programmer provided for this possibility.
Mikkel
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