Hooray for your email. I have precisely the same problems. I don't want to build a watch, I just want to know what time it is. I have a GPS time source and want it to synchronize my bag of 15 computers consisting of several flavors of RedHat Linux, win 98, win NT 4, win2000 winxp. I got win xp working all I had to do was give it the ip address of my timesource. but Linux!!! i still don't understand. I can get ntp started but it refuses to sync and I never see my systems time match that of my stratum 1 timeserver
Thanks to your respondants I have renewed hope that my head will recover. "Cam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
