On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:02:54PM +1000, Perry, David J wrote:
Is setting up NTP time synchronisation just a matter of entering the
ntp server name in the etc/ntp.conf file and then starting ntpd?
Yes, but it's a good idea to restict what various hosts can do with
your ntp server, e.g. for a
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:03:02PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Have you also got a ntp.conf for the client machines?
ntp is both client and server. The config I posted last night is from
a local machine which is a client of the upstream hosts, and acts as a
server to our internal hosts.
I have installed RH 8.0 about a dozen times on various boxes and in about half these
installations the Gnome GUI does not allow setting the date/time. If I try and do an
adjustment it prompts for the root password as expected, but then after accepting the
password nothing happens.
Has anybody
This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote:
ntp is both client and server. The config I posted last night is from
a local machine which is a client of the upstream hosts, and acts as a
server to our internal hosts. Internal hosts are simply pointed at
this server, e.g.:
Yeah, I've just
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:30:46PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Yeah, I've just found the ntp.conf syntax to be deliciously arcane and was
Me too. That's what put me off running it for such a long time. Once
you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple, and you can use the same
config file
This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:30:46PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
That's not so good.
No, but you can work around it with iptables (not as good as not
listening, but better than nothing). Allow port 123 (tcp and udp) from
your upstream servers and
This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote:
Yes, but it's a good idea to restict what various hosts can do with
your ntp server, e.g. for a server which synchronises with three remote
servers and provides time service to a local subnet:
Have you also got a ntp.conf for the client machines?
