On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 5:36 am, JoeHill wrote: > ...and seemingly communicating with NTP servers (Stratum 2): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joehill>$ntpdate time.chu.nrc.ca > 25 Jan 00:29:57 ntpdate[10642]: adjust time server 209.87.233.53 offset > 0.034102 sec > > Sooooo, now what? Will my clock be set automagically, or is there something > else I need to do? > > Followed this howto (google.ca/linux, I love you): > > http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/ntp.htm > > Seems I now have an NTP server running, but do I also need a client?
No Just run the NTP daemon on all your client computers, but set them up to use your local time server as their source. Bear in mind the ntp daemon will not even try to change your time until it has been running for 15 minutes, and then will slowly pull in the local time until it matches the reference. (To make that quicker you can enable the 'step-tickers' by putting the name of your time servers in /etc/ntp/step-tickers , then when the ntp daemon starts it will immediately set to the time of the source in the step-ticker) You could also have configured the ntp server simply by running the ntp wizard in Mandrake Control Centre>Server so long as you had the latest drakwizard installed from the update mirror. (The ntp wizard in the drakwizard on the CDs will fsck up your Timezone) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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