Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:06:32 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ntpd as time server? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020112200632.01776628@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEFDCMAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Joe: You need to setup timed(8) and timedc(8)..... one should be master and the other slaves that trust the master to do the outside time checks.... At 08:43 PM 1.12.2002 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: >My LAN is full of winboxs? Each one has this TSR pgm socketWatch. >This pgm checks a internet time server and resets the pc time. >Instead of 700 machines hitting the internet time server once a hour, >I would like to setup ntpd to go out to the internet time server >once a hour for a update to the FBSD machine and them have my >windows LAN boxes get the time from FBSD time server. >I could not find anything in the ntpd man page that talks about >setting up ntpd as a time server to service time requests from >other machines. What I read is that ntpd will broadcast the time >down the LAN network for any listening clients to pick and user >the time info. The win SocketWatch pgm does not work that way. >Is ntpd the wrong software product for what I want to do? >Does anybody know of something better suited? > >Thanks >Joe > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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