Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-09 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 4/7/2002 11:05 AM -0700, you wrote: It's ntp now. xntp is deprecated. My Sun Sparc running 6.2 has xntp. Where would I find the newer ntp, since I believe RH no longer supports Sparc? Could I get the .src.rpm and do something to it to make it work on sparc? -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-09 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: It's ntp now. xntp is deprecated. My Sun Sparc running 6.2 has xntp. Where would I find the newer ntp, since I believe RH no longer supports Sparc? Could I get the .src.rpm and do something to it to make it work on sparc?

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-09 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 4/9/2002 01:47 PM -0700, you wrote: My Sun Sparc running 6.2 has xntp. Where would I find the newer ntp, since I believe RH no longer supports Sparc? Could I get the .src.rpm and do something to it to make it work on sparc? I doubt there's any compelling reason to replace it, as long as

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-09 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 4/9/2002 01:47 PM -0700, you wrote: My Sun Sparc running 6.2 has xntp. Where would I find the newer ntp, since I believe RH no longer supports Sparc? Could I get the .src.rpm and do something to it to make it work on

Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Does anyone have easy instructions for setting up an NTP server for a small network? I wanted to have one server grab the time from a tier 2 server somewhere, then have the other machines in the net key off of that one for setting time. I started to RTFM, but on my first scan, I couldn't find a

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wanted to have one server grab the time from a tier 2 server somewhere, then have the other machines in the net key off of that one for setting time. I started to RTFM, but on my first scan, I couldn't find a clear, self-contained set of

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Talkington wrote: All you need is a quick-and-dirty /etc/ntp.conf, which includes a server directive (the tier 2) and a driftfile location. Sorry, I should have mentioned that you'll find examples of the required syntax for that stuff in the

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:53:57PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: Does anyone have easy instructions for setting up an NTP server for a small network? I wanted to have one server grab the time from a tier 2 server somewhere, then have the other machines in the net key off of that one for

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If so then you can use the xntp package that comes with RH. It's ntp now. xntp is deprecated. otherwise, if it is not a full-time connection, I suggest you check out the chrony package. Speaking of options, the most reliable way to keep an

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread Stephen L Arnold
On 7 Apr 02, at 11:05, David Talkington wrote: Fred said: If so then you can use the xntp package that comes with RH. It's ntp now. xntp is deprecated. That depends on whether you're talking ntp 3 or 4. 4 is the latest, but 3 is much more mature. The various windoze clients mentioned

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:05:36AM -0700, David Talkington wrote: Also, though you didn't ask: there are numerous ntp clients for windoze machines. And Windows XP and Mac OS X have them built in now. Almost. The time service in XP only updates the clock once per week. I use a service

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen L Arnold wrote: ntp can handle part-time connections just fine, Yes, but the advantage of using clockspeed under it (clockspeed isn't a time server) is that it compensates for hardware clock skew while it's offline. If you then sync ntpd

Re: Small network NTP server

2002-04-07 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:50:54AM -0700, David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen L Arnold wrote: ntp can handle part-time connections just fine, Yes, but the advantage of using clockspeed under it (clockspeed isn't a time server) is that it