Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 13:17:07 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com Cc: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: keeping up with time... Message-ID: <19980124131707.05304@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <19980123222814.43925@mooseriver.com>; from "Josef Grosch" on Fri Jan 23 22:28:14 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980124132633.572A-100000@cody.usls.edu> <19980123222814.43925@mooseriver.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 23), Josef Grosch said: > On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 01:28:33PM +0800, Francis Vidal wrote: > > hello everyone! > > > > what tool is recommended for syncronizing all servers with the correct > > time? i have 2 FreeBSD servers, 2 Linux servers and one NT server on my > > network plus a number of Windows 95 workstations. > > > > man xntpd(8) xntpd is the preferred solution for synchronizing your four Unix machines. Designate one machine as the 'master' server, and go to http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/servers.html and pick two secondary servers near you. Create an /etc/ntp.conf file with the following: server <server1> server <server2> broadcast <1.2.3.255> # put your broadcast IP here Then edit /etc/ntp.conf on your other machines and simply put in: broadcastclient yes Some routers can also do NTP; our Cisco router is our master NTP server at work. For the win95/NT machines, the software I use is a free program called "Dimension 4", available at http://www.thinkman.com/~thinkman/dimension4/index.htm. You can configure it to sync your clock on bootup, or every xxx minutes. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com
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