Activity log for bug #1278359

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2014-02-10 09:34:04 itzeme bug added bug
2014-02-10 09:34:34 itzeme description Currently ntpdate is started every time the network interface changes to up. On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers. If easily possible ntpdate shold rather be called daily or weekly via cron, if there is a hardware clock present. (Valid on all Ubuntu versions and ntpdate versions) Currently ntpdate is started every time the network interface changes to up. On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers. If easily possible ntpdate shold rather be called daily or weekly via cron, if there is a hardware clock present. (Valid on all Ubuntu versions)
2014-02-10 09:34:51 itzeme description Currently ntpdate is started every time the network interface changes to up. On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers. If easily possible ntpdate shold rather be called daily or weekly via cron, if there is a hardware clock present. (Valid on all Ubuntu versions) Currently ntpdate is started every time the network interface changes to up. On systems that have a hardware clock this is not nessesary, causeing unnessesary traffic and load on ntp servers. If easily possible ntpdate shold rather be called daily or weekly via cron, if there is a hardware clock present. (affects all Ubuntu versions)
2014-02-10 11:07:12 Robie Basak bug watch added http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731352
2014-02-10 11:07:20 Robie Basak ntp (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Low
2014-02-10 11:08:07 Robie Basak bug added subscriber Robie Basak
2014-05-08 08:04:23 Launchpad Janitor ntp (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2016-05-01 14:58:52 Christian Ehrhardt  marked as duplicate 1206164