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2019-05-06

Run a time server in an LXC container

Running a network time server in an LXC container normally doesn't work even if you run the container in privileged mode. The reason is that containers drop certain capabilities upon startup for security reasons (sys_module, mac_admin, mac_override, sys_time).

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Posted 21:38 [permalink]

2015-02-22

NTP "Leap not in sync"

Today I had a rather curious problem on my fileserver. I noticed that its system time was behind the clock, but when I tried to manually synchronize it with my timeserver, ntpdate failed with the error message "Leap not in sync".

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Posted 21:40 [permalink]