Good Day!

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:20:29AM +0800, Jason V. Ferrer wrote:
>  Ok here's the situation we have been using ntpd since last Dec. To 
> synchronize  our the system clock's of the computers on our network. Here's 
> the catch everytime we booth the server we have to connect to the darn 
> internet so that the ntpd daemon will synchronize to another time server  
> (stratum 2?) over the internet else the ntpd daemon will quit and there wil 
> be no time server for our client computers to synch. with.  We need a time 
> server because the /home directories on the our client computers is nfs 
> mounted.  When you have nfs mount it is very important to have the client and 
> server  system time  be kept in  synch.

        Yes, openntpd will work on this.

>   This is only a home network we dont have the luxury of a permanent internet 
> connection. That's why im looking for a way to configure ntpd so that it 
> doesnt have to synch. to another time server but simply serve the system 
> time.  

        It even supports intermitent[0] net connections.


Mabuhay! barryg


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