> From: Israel Garcia [mailto:igalva...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:59 PM > > We've been increasing in numbers of debian lenny servers and they has > a cron.hourly as follow: > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u swisstime.ethz.ch > > We're planning to setup our NTP's servers only to serve our local > boxes. I've some questions for you: > > 1. Which do you suggest to use? openntpd or ntp server?
I use the "ntp" package with great success. It is both a server and a client. > 2. Can I setup redundancy with any of them? Yes. You can list as many servers as you want in the config file. > 3. What client should I use to synchronize other boxes clock? ntpdate > command or ntp daemon client? "ntp" package, listed above. > 4. Should I use a local NTP or do you suggest all client synchronize > to an external server? It's best to have a local NTP server that all local clients sync to. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org