From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 21:53:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop05.iname.net (pop05.iname.net [165.251.8.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01621517F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmurphy@earthling.net) Received: from earthling.net (dialin1288.toronto.globalserve.net [209.90.135.17]) by pop05.iname.net (8.9.1/8.8.0) with ESMTP id AAA03852 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:53:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37D9E03C.89F34E66@earthling.net> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:53:16 -0400 From: Paul Murphy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Timed master References: <199909090335.XAA03254@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > Ian Diddams wrote, > > > > > > I must be missing somethuing (a brain?) but what is a timed master, or > > how does one start? The man pages merely indicate that timed looks for > > a master on its ocal network, but doesn't say exactly how to run said > > master! > > You are not missing anything. The timed(8) manpage, to use a technical > term, sucks the Big One (I have a PR in on it since June, > docs/11978). You can kind of infer from the wording of the timed(8) > manpage that there is some type of election process for the timed > master. However, you can force a machine to only trust certain > machines as masters with the '-F' switch (or so I gather from reading > between the lines). If you, > > # timed -F localhost > Timed will negotiate between servers that are started "timed -M" for mastery. Servers that are not started with the -M or -F option will never be masters. -- pmurphy@earthling.net http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/1913/ "I am not going to be happy until my living room looks like NORAD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message