Not sure about ntp, but I use rdate.
rdate -s time.nist.gov && hwclock --systohc
Will update both the system time and the hareware clock. Just set a nice
cron job.
Ben
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Mike Branda
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:42 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] ntp, xntp help
thank you for all the replies. I'll try the suggestions and get back to
yall! a few current things....
bill, I mis-stated that ntp does not have a man page....I had already
tried "man ntp". that was the first step. usually I try to exhaust and
learn up as much as I can about my question before I post so I can have
a little bit of an idea how to try out response suggestions. when you
type man ntp on my box this is the output:
NTP(1) NTP(1)
NAME
NTP - Network Time Protocol
SEE ALSO
The NTP distribution does not include man pages. To learn
more about the NTP protocol and this software, please
install the xntp-doc package included in you SuSE Linux
distribution.
to which I sought the xntp docs and then from there was redirected to
the eecis.udel.edu html online stuff which was a bit more helpful, but
strangely structured and didn't seem to have any examples of the conf
file. just a lot of info about available parameters.
I will definitely stay away from stratum 1 servers now, but the closest
stratum 2 was in GA ( does that even matter?? ) and I didn't see any 3's
listed on the eecis servers list when I first checked. I'll look into
www.pool.ntp.org.
Ian - do you have any ntp.conf host and client examples?? what you
described is what I was initially intending to do with the exception
that I wasn't going to peer the workstations but that sounds like a
better way to handle it. Your way, I assume even if the outside
connection goes poof things will stay in sync on the inside for a
season. I can get the server to poll outside fine...I'm just not making
the mental connection as to how to rebroadcast to the inside or how the
workstation conf file should look to receive that broadcast.
Mike Branda
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