From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 20: 4:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta05.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F7037B402 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:04:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta05.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20020114040429.HPNY3053.mta05.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:04:29 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020114150028.0445dec0@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:04:18 +1100 To: jacks@sage-american.com From: Rob B Subject: Re: ntpd as time server? Cc: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "FBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020112200632.01776628@mail.sage-american.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13:06 13/01/2002, jacks@sage-american.com sent this up the stick: >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.... This won't work, since he has a Windows systems on the LAN. AFAICT, timed only works between FreeBSD boxes on the local network. As most people have offered, ntpd works much better. Cheers, Rob >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? -- ... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice that you have turned into a pile of dust. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 31 of a collection of 1200 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message