On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Daniel Havey wrote: > I want ntpdate, and don't really care about ntpd. I need an ntp server > running on one node, and the other nodes connect to the first node with > ntpdate like this: > > #!/bin/bash > SERVER=ntpserver1 > RATE=5 > while [ 1 ]; > do > ntpdate -b $SERVER > ntpdate -b $SERVER > ntpdate -b $SERVER > sleep $RATE > done > > So I think what I would like to do is install an NTP server on one node, > verify that it works ;^) and have the others keep in synch with the script.
At some point, perhaps, you will figure out that invoking "ntpdate -b" three times in a row in a script running every five seconds is not sensible. In the meantime, please make sure you don't configure such a script to point to anyone else's NTP servers.... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
