Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread David Woolley
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > > /etc/hosts is a perfectly OK thing to use. It's not the only tool for > the job and in most circumstances it's not the best tool but it works! It's neither sufficient nor necessary in this case. It's not sufficient because it will do nothing unless you also conf

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) writes: >>>No. All you need is refclock_nmea (127.127.20.x) for a directly >>>connected NMEA device. Assuming that you're using a Linux kernel with >>>PPS-kit or a BSD kernel (or another kernel which directly supports PPS). >> >>OK, lets assume the kernel does NOT h

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Hal Murray
>>No. All you need is refclock_nmea (127.127.20.x) for a directly >>connected NMEA device. Assuming that you're using a Linux kernel with >>PPS-kit or a BSD kernel (or another kernel which directly supports PPS). > >OK, lets assume the kernel does NOT have the PPS support. Then what? If you setup

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Danny Mayer wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> Danny Mayer wrote: >>> Unruh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) writes: > Folks; > I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I > have one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server > My 3 ques

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Unruh
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 2008-04-08, Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>You don't need a "Garmin driver" for the GPS-18LVC. >> >>>Just use the Atomized NMEA driver (with built-in PPS support). >> >> I assume that you mean to

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Danny Mayer
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> Unruh wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) writes: >>> Folks; I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I have one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server My 3 questions are: 1. I add

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-04-08, Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>You don't need a "Garmin driver" for the GPS-18LVC. > >>Just use the Atomized NMEA driver (with built-in PPS support). > > I assume that you mean to use both the refclock_atom and the > refclock_nmea d

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Hal Murray
>I assume that you mean to use both the refclock_atom and the refclock_nmea >drivers. (127.127.22.0 and 127.127.20.0) The NMEA driver automagically uses the PPS stuff, whether you want it to or not. It would be nice to have a flag to disable that feature so you could collect data on the NMEA tex

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Danny Mayer wrote: > Unruh wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) writes: >> >>> Folks; >>> I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I >>> have one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server >>> My 3 questions are: >>> >>> 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Danny Mayer
Unruh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) writes: > >> Folks; >> I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I >> have one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server >> My 3 questions are: >> >> 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server to the "/etc/hosts" >> file

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Unruh
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 2008-04-08, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Solaris has some sort of "PPS support". My Motorola M12+T feeds the PPS >> into, I believe, the DCD pin on the serial port. I'm not familiar with >> the Garmin driver; it may or may not

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) writes: >>Can someone point me to a good document that >>shows how to setup a Time Server? I have an >>isolated network that cannot get to the Internet >>to sync time. I have Solaris 8,9,10 and Red Hat Linux >>Advanced Server 4 servers as potential time server >>ca

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) writes: >Folks; > I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I have one > Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server > My 3 questions are: > > 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server to the "/etc/hosts" file on the > Linux server. Is

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-04-08, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Solaris has some sort of "PPS support". My Motorola M12+T feeds the PPS > into, I believe, the DCD pin on the serial port. I'm not familiar with > the Garmin driver; it may or may not have that support built in. If > not, ISTR re

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-04-07, Sullivan, George E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone point me to a good document that shows how to setup a Time > Server? The Official NTP Quick Start page is at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/quick.html The Community Supported Quick Start Page is at http://supp

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-04-08, unix2266 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I have >one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server The Official NTP Quick Start Page is at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/quick.html The Community Supported N

Re: [ntp:questions] Linux 11-minute mode (RTC update)

2008-04-08 Thread Serge Bets
On Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 10:01:59 +0200, Noob wrote: > After setting the RTC, hwclock reports: > Hardware clock ended up -0.001261 seconds from intended set time. > And this "offset" is always approximately -1.25 ms > What is the problem here? Is it even a problem? Yes and no. This offset is

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Maarten Wiltink
"unix2266" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. > I have one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server > My 3 questions are: > > 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server to the "/etc/hosts" > fil

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Martin Burnicki
unix2266 wrote: > Folks; > I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I have one > Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server My 3 questions are: > > 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server to the "/etc/hosts" file on > the Linux server. Is that all i need to

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Apr 7, 10:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) wrote: > 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server to the "/etc/hosts" file on > the Linux server. Is that all i need to do to make the Linux server point to > the NTP server? You don't need to mess with /etc/nosts unless you don't have access

Re: [ntp:questions] Linux 11-minute mode (RTC update)

2008-04-08 Thread Evandro Menezes
It shouldn't be forgot that the RTC can only be set and read with a granularity of seconds only. The 11-minute scheme doesn't synchronize the RTC to the exact second and when read, even waiting for up to a second for the read to change, it lacks accuracy. All this in addition to thermal drifting

[ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread unix2266
Folks; I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I have one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server My 3 questions are: 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server to the "/etc/hosts" file on the Linux server. Is that all i need to do to make the Linux server

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting up a NTP Time Server

2008-04-08 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Hal Murray wrote: >> Can someone point me to a good document that >> shows how to setup a Time Server? I have an >> isolated network that cannot get to the Internet >> to sync time. I have Solaris 8,9,10 and Red Hat Linux >> Advanced Server 4 servers as potential time server >> candidates. > > I

Re: [ntp:questions] Linux 11-minute mode (RTC update)

2008-04-08 Thread Noob
Serge Bets wrote: > This never happens on a proper setup: hwclock --hctosys syncs on the RTC > down to a few microseconds. I have a question regarding hwclock --systohc (the other way around). After setting the RTC, hwclock reports: Hardware clock ended up -0.001261 seconds from intended set tim