On Wednesday 27 February 2002 10:31 am, you wrote: > All, > I know that there is a command to stick into a cron job to synchronize on > linux server's time to another's.
rdate. But it is eeevil. > My problem is that I have mounted a > filesystem from our main server onto my local server, and when I do makes, > gmake is complaining about time skew. The NFS server is syncing its time > to a time server on the net, so I don't need to worry about that. I just > want to make the time on my box the same as the time on the NFS server. Awhile back I posted a tutorial to this mailing list on how to set up xntpd. THAT is the thing you need to do. xntpd will do a hard timeset when the system boots up, and then do very gradual adjustments periodically while the machine is running. Much more appropriate, IMHO.
