On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

> How can I set my linux box up to be a time server for another machine?  I 
> have seen several how-to's on setting the time, but I have yet to run 
> across anything that tells me how to set the linux box up to send out 
> time hacks when requested.

As far as I know, most distributions have this set up by default

Frank

> 
> The reason I am trying to do this is, I have a Mac IIci running 
> NetBSD/mac68k.  Since Apple gave clock interrupts a pretty low priority 
> (or so it has been explained to me), my NetBSD system loses time pretty 
> steadily.  This can be aggravated by a high system load, by a kernel 
> compile for example.  I would like to set up the NetBSD box to query the 
> linux box for the time every ten or fifteen minutes or so.  The linux box 
> seems to keep pretty good time (it is in any case better than the NetBSD 
> box), and I don't need any great level of accuracy.  I just want to 
> eliminate the annoyance of the NetBSD box being twenty minutes or more 
> behind after being up a few days.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
>                   Theo. Sean Schulze
> 
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