On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:38:12PM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Michael George wrote:
> >I have a small network and I'd like to coordinate the time on that
> >network. I've already been using rdate to weekly sync my server's time
> >with that of a public time server.
>
> So use rdate on the clients to have them sync with the server. You may have
> to enable the "time" service in inetd/xinetd on the server.
That's what I thought... NTP is more oriented to syncing in both directions,
and I may do that whenever I'm connected to the 'net 24/7. However, right
now I have my server initiating the PPP connection and running rdate once a
week. Then I'd like to have my other system(s) sync with that machine.
I tried to set "disable = no" in my xinet.d/time[,-udp] files and restart
xinetd.
I then told my Mac OS X system to use my server (specified the IP address to
eliminate the name resolution issue) as a NTP server and to sync with it.
However, when I tell that system to set the time, I get:
Synchronization Failed. Your NTP server may not be responding.
So, I'm about ready to set up the ntp package, but I think that's overkill.
Normally, I might be a bit more skeptical of the Mac, but w/ OS X, it's
basically a BSD system and I'll be it works. So, I think there's something
I'm missing on the linux end.
My /etc/xinet.d/time files looks like:
---------------------------------------------------------
# default: off
# description: An RFC 868 time server. This is the tcp \
# version, which is used by rdate.
service time
{
type = INTERNAL
id = time-stream
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
user = root
wait = no
disable = no
}
---------------------------------------------------------
My /etc/xinet.d/time-udp files looks like:
---------------------------------------------------------
# default: off
# description: An RFC 868 time server. This is the udp \
# version.
service time
{
type = INTERNAL UNLISTED
id = time-dgram
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
user = root
wait = yes
disable = no
port = 37
}
---------------------------------------------------------
But my guess is that's what yours look like. Do you know if I have something
wrong here? I haven't done anything but change these files and restart
xinetd. Maybe there's something more I need to do...
Thanks for your help!
-Michael
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In light of the terrorist attack on the U.S.:
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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