Hello list,
I've been alternately reading the NTP documentation and banging my head
on the desk, so please excuse any intemperance and/or incoherence.
I'm glad my car's manual wasn't written by the same people who wrote the
NTP documentation or it would start with an exhaustive treatment of the
carnot cycle and then roar off into advanced thermodynamics when all I
wanted to know was how often to change the d**n oil. Pauses to bang head
on desk several more times. Apparently the idea of starting with simple
examples ("hello world") and working up to complex examples ("program to
prove the four-color theorem") didn't occur to them; they want to prove
the theorem right away.
But I digress. I have a computer, lets call it MASTER, which has time of
day that I'm happy with. I have a bunch of other computers, all on the
same subnet, and I want them to set their clocks to match MASTER. That's
it. Sounds like the making of a real simple example. I believe this can
be done because the NTP pages make reference to an "Undisciplined Local
Clock" but as with all the documentation it assumes you are already an
expert so no simple example is given. Whack whack.
So, finally, the question is: Does anybody have a link to a web page
that gives some simple examples (eg "to sync from machine 1.2.3.4 do
this", "to setup a local undiciplined server do that")? If so it would
be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Cam Farnell
ps I've already R'd the F'ing M or at least made a serious attempt at
it. I don't want to know every arcane detail of NTP in the known
universe; I want to set up a *really* simple system.
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