Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:53:43 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Ian Diddams <didds@freenet.uk.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Timed master Message-ID: <19990908145343.B24134@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <37D65CCC.2D81F894@freenet.uk.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990904120411.9063F-100000@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca> <87vh9mns5q.fsf@ralf.serv.net> <37D65CCC.2D81F894@freenet.uk.com>
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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!
If you run `timed -M', that time daemon will become a master if no
other master is on the network, or if the master goes down. What I do
is run `timed -F scientia' (on the machine called scientia), which I
believe forces that machine to be a master (-F scientia means "only
trust scientia (i.e. myself) to have the right time", or something). Run
timed -M on other machines on your LAN which you want to become a master
(you can use more than one, they won't both end up being a master) if
the master goes down, and with no arguments on all the slave machines.
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