Re: ntp setup for a local server and a few clients to that server

[Christopher Keller]

On 31 Jul 2001 01:33:19 -0400, Devon wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Christopher Keller wrote:
> >
> > > $ chkconfig ntpd on
> > > $ echo -e "clock.isc.org\nclock.via.net\ngpstime.trimble.com" >
> > > /etc/ntp/step-tickers
> > > $ service ntpd start
> 
> If I remember correctly, the step-tickers file is used only at ntpd 
> start up to set the time (via ntpdate), making it easier on ntp. I 
> don't believe ntpd ever looks at the step-tickers file. For ntp to 
> maintain the time, you need to define time servers in /etc/ntp.conf.
> 
> Here's the reference in /etc/init.d/ntpd
> start() {
>         # Adjust time to make life easy for ntpd
>         if [ -f /etc/ntp/step-tickers ]; then
>                 echo -n $"Synchronizing with time server: "
>                 /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -b -p 8 -u \
>                     `/bin/sed -e 's/#.*//' /etc/ntp/step-tickers`
>                 success
>                 echo
>         fi
> 
> -D
> 

I probably should have mentioned that this is my laptop, which gets
rebooted about five time per day. As long as the time gets set intially,
I don't care of their is much time drift between reboots. Sorry about
that....

--Chris




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