Greetings All- I took a look at my logs and realized the time recorded was very different than the real time. I tried setting up a check once per day by inserting a server in the lrp.conf but that did not work.
A system that worked was to place the following lines in /etc/cron.d/multicron 11 05,11,17,23 * * * root /usr/sbin/rdate -s x.x.x.x 12 05,11,17,23 * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc And have the time examined every 6 hours beginning 5 am and updating the clock at 11 mins past and writing to the cmos clock at minute 12. That was accurately keeping the firewall time but since I now had a machine that knew the time, could I use the firewall as an internal time server for the rest of the machines in my house? Bearing has a hint of how this may be done and I downloaded and added to my DS floppy libm.lrp and ntpsimpl.lrp. Updated my /mnt/syslinux.cfg placing libm,ntpsimpl at the end of the line and making sure it was not over 254 characters long. Started up the new configuration and added servers to the ntpd.conf under package settings for ntpsimpl. Syslogs indicate the ntpd daemon is alive and kicking but the clock (date) and cmos clock (hwclock --show) are progressively getting worse and worse. My guess is that I need to open ntp port 123 (either tcp, or udp) to allow the ntpd daemon out to the selected servers. Of course, that is where I got stuck. I also tried to connect to the firewall with 192.168.1.254 as the time server from a M$ box. The connection was "Unable to contact server". Once again, the guess is that I need to open the "INTERNAL" ports 123 to my internal network, which is once again where I get stuck. I really don't want to open the "EXTERNAL" upd ports and let my box be the time server to the world. Any suggestions on how to let the ntpd daemon contact the net, as well as how to let my internal machines through to get a time sync would be greatly appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
