Right arm -- I'll have to check that one out. Thanks!
-Charlie joe said: > I use clockspeed. This package is written by the guy who wrote qmail. > Here's a little blurb and the link > http://cr.yp.to/clockspeed/clockspeed-0.62.tar.gz > > "clockspeed uses a hardware tick counter to compensate for a > persistently fast or slow system clock. Given a few time measurements > from a reliable source, it computes and then eliminates the clock > skew. > sntpclock checks another system's NTP clock, and prints the results in > a format suitable for input to clockspeed. sntpclock is the simplest > available NTP/SNTP client. > taiclock and taiclockd form an even simpler alternative to SNTP. They > are suitable for precise time synchronization over a local area > network, without the hassles and potential security problems of an NTP > server." > > - Joe > > On Saturday 01 December 2001 14:06, you wrote: >> I had this working many moons ago, but with new upgrades/installs, >> it's all been lost and I can't remember what I did (but I know it's >> not that hard -- that's why it's driving me crazy). >> >> So here's what I've got going on: >> >> - ntp installed on all of my machines >> - ntp configured on fileserver to sync to external time server >> (doesn't stay synced, however). >> - ntp configured on remaining nodes to sync with fileserver who is >> supposed to allow that >> >> But what's happening is that the ntp on the fileserver will start up, >> sync with the external time server, but down the line, the time begins >> to drift and according to my syslog, there were never any more >> attempts to keep time synced (ntp-4.1.0-1mdk installed on every one >> of them). >> >> And on the local clients, in my /etc/ntp.conf, I've got 10.1.1.3 (the >> IP for the fileserver) set for the server. That never worked so I >> stuck it in my /etc/ntp/step-tickers and still, no love. Here's what >> I get: >> >> ntpdate[13387]: no server suitable for synchronization found >> >> I portscanned the fileserver and 123 isn't even open (shouldn't it be >> listening on that port?). When I do a 'ps auxw |grep ntp' on the >> fileserver, all I've got is 'ntp -A'. Should there be anything else >> in order to allow other nodes to sync? >> >> So what am I missing here? I'm all out of ideas. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE
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