[Dextrose] [PATCH] au#704: Allow the configuration of NTP Servers from DateTime CP.

[Jerry Vonau]

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 14:43 -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 23:09 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote:
> > This patch provides a mechanism to specify (multiple) NTP Server URLs, that are
> > written to "/etc/ntp/step-tickers".
> 
> Why not simply configure the NTP servers automatically from DHCP?
> 

We may not have control over the dhcp server, we would have to request
the ntp-servers with the XO's dhcp lease request.  ;)

> On the server side, just set this option:
> 
>   option ntp-servers time1.local, time2.foobar.com, 1.2.3.4;
> 
> On the client side, dhclient can invoke hook scripts, passing them the
> information received from the server. Fedora probably has a reasonable
> script to do this. If not, write your own.
> 

Yea, working that up. 

Jerry