Hi all!
First off, thanks a bunch for the great release of Arch on the Raspberry Pi, I love it!
This is probably going to be a trivial question, and I am only asking out of curiosity, but I was wondering why OpenNTPD was chosen over NTPD on the Raspberry Pi? Is there any benefit in terms of resources or is it merely a preference of the team developing for the Raspberry Pi?
The reason I ask is that I am trying to learn more about the ins-and-outs of the Linux OS and I have only ever used NTPD. I use NTPD on my old PPC G4 Mac Mini running Debian Squeeze which, has a depleted watch battery inside so doesn't keep the time (and it is a bugger to open the case). This works very successfully, especially so as I am using a USB WiFi "stick" to gain access to the internet.
Whilst using OpenNTPD on the Raspberry Pi I have found that it runs fine when using a wired connection, however after following the instructions (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenNTPD#Using_wicd) for wicd (starting the OpenNTP daemon on connection to a wireless network) I have not had much luck in getting the time to sync.
Is there anything I could be doing wrong? Something I maybe should look at?
I have tried uninstalling OpenNTPD and installed NTPD, replaced the wicd startup scripts to use NTPD, and this has been much more successful. Is this an OK solution to the problem?
Thanks for your time and patience.
Kind Regards,
Xan.