Re: [PLUG] Time & date sync'ing between systems

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

Okay, I'll take a look.  I believe that my problem was related to trying to get
ntpd to talk to a time server, any time server.  It's pre-installed on the
firewall (Mitel SME server/e-smith) so I'll turn that on and and have my other
computers set their time from the firewall box.

Thanks

Eric

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:19:26PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 06:58 PM, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> 
> > Whoa!  I wanted to do this for months (my Linux server clock drifts) 
> > but
> > did not know how.  The ntp documentation was completly confusing and 
> > did
> > not do what I wanted.
> 
> ntp is not that complicated.
> 
> Google for "Hedemark" and "ntp" and you will find a how-to I wrote a 
> few years ago.  Last time I read it I noticed I made a mistake or three 
> so I need to update it but setting up ntpd is actually very easy.
> 
> Short version:
> 
> ==== /etc/ntp.conf ====
> driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
> server ntp1.unc.edu
> server ntp2.unc.edu
> ==== end ====
> 
> ==== /etc/ntp/step-tickers ====
> ntp1.unc.edu ntp2.unc.edu
> ==== end ====
> 
> Make sure that xntpd or ntpd is set to start up sometime after the 
> network but before most of your other daemons.  At least with Red Hat 
> Linux, the init script is already set up to hard synch against your 
> step tickers with ntpdate and then ntpd takes over.  If you don't do 
> the ntpdate first, and your clock is too far off, ntpd will silently 
> quit because the delta is too far outside of its ability to smooth.
> 
> Chris Hedemark .. Hillsborough, NC .. http://yonderway.com
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> 
> 
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