<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Hinckley Dan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbh@suiattle.org" target="_blank">dbh@suiattle.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="">On 23 Nov 2014, at 17:50, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><br></div></span><span class=""><div>So I will kill off Apple's foo and use ntpd from ports, I think. It may not "save battery", but last I checked iMacs did not have batteries. :)</div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For the less expert among us, how do you “kill off Apple’s foo”?</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div> sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pacemaker.plist<br> sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ntp.ntpd.plist</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also: having now shut off Apple's fake ntpd as well as pacemaker as above, and activated MacPorts' ntpd (sudo port install ntp && sudo port load ntp), my system is keeping time properly. Note that this *is* going to be fairly expensive if you use a laptop on battery; you can try to get a better read on your system's clock drift (instead of that established on shiny new hardware, which may change significantly with a couple weeks of use) and use the Apple approved stuff:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pacemaker.plist</div><div class="gmail_extra"> sudo rm /etc/ntp.drift</div><div class="gmail_extra"> sudo launchctl stop org.ntp.ntpd</div><div class="gmail_extra"> # wait an hour or so for ntpd to establish the current drift</div><div class="gmail_extra"> sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pacemaker.plist</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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