On 2008-10-15, Mohit Aron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * There were some questions on what I'm trying to do here. Basically > we sell a distributed platform containing multiple machines arrange > in a master-slave architecture. The slaves need to be sync'd with > the master when they start up. Slow bootup times are unacceptable - > specially wasting 3 minutes just to synchronize clocks is not ok. > So the slaves need to quickly update the clock to roughly the same > time as the master, and then later its ok for them to run ntp in the > background.
If you're just interested in synchronizing all of these systems to a common network time you may find that 'timed' is better suited to your application than ntpd. http://gentoo-portage.com/net-misc/netkit-timed/ -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
