Sullivan, George E. wrote: > Greetings all, > > Well for now I've got my ssh public keys combined on the affected > systems so root can login without a password. Now, with a simple script > I am able to use the date command and update the time on the clients via > the ntpdate command used in a cronjob. > > It works, though I'd love a real ntp solution. >
You didn't see my response about Orphan mode? Danny > Thanks. > George Sullivan > SAIC IISBU > Columbia, Md. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Sullivan, George E. > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 8:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ntp:questions] Standalone time server > > First I want to apologize for asking this question. I've looked online > for an answer to it and there seems to be a lot of questions like it. > But I haven't yet found a definitive answer. Maybe I'm not phrasing the > search query correctly. > > First is this even possible? I have a server I want to be a time > server. It can NOT connect to the Internet. It can NOT receive a signal > from some attached device. It can NOT receive a signal from a wireless > source. All this is due to security constraints. So the source of time > updates will be human initiated. I'll have to act as the "time source" > and manually via the "date" command, enter the time. I'll have to get > the time from an online source such as one of those atomic clock sites > or one of the real Internet Time Servers and set this server's clock > manually. Super/extreme accuracy is not critical, but keeping the > systems within a few seconds of each other would be nice. I've noticed > some of my systems stray as much as a few minutes over a week or two. > > So if this server can act as a human updated time server, then my > clients can potentially use the ntpd to update themselves or even use > ntpdate in a cronjob to update themselves. Either is ok for my needs. > > So, if this is possible what would my server's ntp.conf file look like? > Are there other files, instead, I need to configure? > > Lastly, thanks to all you ntp gurus for considering this and for perhaps > helping. Obviously you can tell I'm not proficient at working with ntp. > > TECH: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server Version 5.3. > NTP Version 4.2.2, actual RPM name is ntp-4.2.2p1-7.el5 > 32 Bit, x86 Dell 2950 > Clients - a mix of Red Hat 3 update 4,5,6,7,8 and some Red Hat > 4. > > Regards > > George Sullivan > SAIC IISBU > Columbia, Md. > > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
