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On 05-Jan-99 Leon McClatchey wrote:
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|| Hello everyone:-)
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|| Got a simple little question (tho the answer may not be so simple:-)
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|| At any rate, on my little network, I've got my Linux box set up as a
|| time server so that all the connected pc's show the same time, but now I
|| would like to either via cron or some other method, automatically check
|| the time with another time server either via the internet or dialup
|| modem.
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|| Is this possible, if so, is the software to do this already included in
|| the Suse 5.1 distribution. If it is included, how do I activate it,
|| I've looked all over for docs on it and couldn't find anything. If the
|| software is not included, where do I find the software.
That is where the xntpd server comes into play. This daemon connects to
reliable time sources on the net, and then assuming that you want it to do so,
will update your machine. I am not familiar with SuSE 5.1, but in 5.3 you would
find it in /sbin/init.d/xntpd.
There are a few confiuration files that you need to set up which will point the
daemon out to the right machines to sync with. You might want to do a man on
ntp and ntpdate. One word of warning, if you are syncing via dial-up, you may
want to make sure that xntpd does not fire-up at boot time. Makes for a long
wait as you are waiting for it to search out machines that it cannot connect to.
I start up xntpd in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and stop it when I shutdown my PPP
connection.
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