I updated MostlyGeek with the Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King. Previously the site used Twitter’s JavaScript badge to display my latest tweets. There are a number of advantages to using Twitter Tools over the simple badge:
- Automatically tweet a new blog entry
- Automatic downloading of my latest tweets
- Automatically blog tweets
Also while adding the plug in I noticed that my server clock had drifted off by about 3 hours. The server has been up for 679 days and drifted by about 0.66 seconds a day. I was surprised because the ntpd daemon was running to keep the clock in sync.
Turns out I didn’t create a ntp.conf file 2 years ago and the server has slowly been drifting. Fixing the problem was straight forward:
- Created /etc/ntp.conf, reference: Clock Synchronization with NTP
- kill the running ntp daemon
- use: sudo ntpdate ntp.domain.com to force resync the clock. When the clock is really out of sync this is preferable to waiting for ntpd to gradually adjust the time. My 3 hour difference would have taken a very long time to finally sync up. A pull the band-aid off fast approach.
- restart the ntpd daemon
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