On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 18:42:11 -0700, Stephen Carville
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I set up a Linux box as a time server? I have an older (5.2)
>box acting as a NAT server and firewall for my home network. Since
>this machine is up 7x24 I have a cron job that syncs the clock nightly
>to time.nist.gov.
Xntpd is the best way. It will be more difficult to configure it the
first time, but once you get past that, the effort will be worthwhile.
I don't see any man page for it, but docs are in the /usr/doc/xntp???
directory, at least on the cooker install I just did.
>I would like to re-export this data so I can sync the clocks on other
>machines using rdate. I tried timed but this did not do it (unless I
>did something wrong)
Xntpd for that too.