On Fri 13 Oct, Russell King - ARM Linux Admin wrote:
> Look at the timed tools - in.timed. It is a small server/client which will
> synchronise time between machines. RedHat have a separate .srpm in their
> RH7.0 package set that you could use to compile it up (if you don't already
> have it). I'm not sure about Debian though.
Debian have packages for 'xntp3' and 'chrony' - a friendlier implementation
of the same sort of thing. These are probably rather too heavyweight for most
applications, but the chrony daemon is only 90K so if you do need to keep
reasonably accurate time on a net or occaisionally-connected system this
would be a good way to do it. It's even power-saving friendly so it won't
keep writing time-adjustment files to your hd/CF if you aren't connected.
A related aside: the hwclock program, which sets the hardware clock on
bootup, in the debian ARM distribution only works on Netwinders. On a RISC PC
it just hangs the machine - we'll get round to fixing it soon.
Wookey
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