[...] > > Hmmm, don't think that would cause it (both boxen are in the same subnet) > so they should behave similarly wrt/ time sync. > And IIRC ntpdate has a shorter timeout, not 3 minutes >
If you can't physically access the host, the easiest way would probably be a
hook for task_setup, setup.${HOSTNAME} , that does essentially the same as the
original code, but adds a timestamp after each line.
HTH,
Michael
