First I want to apologize for asking this question. I've looked online for an answer to it and there seems to be a lot of questions like it. But I haven't yet found a definitive answer. Maybe I'm not phrasing the search query correctly.
First is this even possible? I have a server I want to be a time server. It can NOT connect to the Internet. It can NOT receive a signal from some attached device. It can NOT receive a signal from a wireless source. All this is due to security constraints. So the source of time updates will be human initiated. I'll have to act as the "time source" and manually via the "date" command, enter the time. I'll have to get the time from an online source such as one of those atomic clock sites or one of the real Internet Time Servers and set this server's clock manually. Super/extreme accuracy is not critical, but keeping the systems within a few seconds of each other would be nice. I've noticed some of my systems stray as much as a few minutes over a week or two. So if this server can act as a human updated time server, then my clients can potentially use the ntpd to update themselves or even use ntpdate in a cronjob to update themselves. Either is ok for my needs. So, if this is possible what would my server's ntp.conf file look like? Are there other files, instead, I need to configure? Lastly, thanks to all you ntp gurus for considering this and for perhaps helping. Obviously you can tell I'm not proficient at working with ntp. TECH: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server Version 5.3. NTP Version 4.2.2, actual RPM name is ntp-4.2.2p1-7.el5 32 Bit, x86 Dell 2950 Clients - a mix of Red Hat 3 update 4,5,6,7,8 and some Red Hat 4. Regards George Sullivan SAIC IISBU Columbia, Md. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions