timed/ntpd

[Robert Viduya]

We ported the ntp package to all our machines including the SGI's.
We run the daemon, xntpd, on the file & compute servers and have a
program the runs ntpdate on the workstations every so often (ntpdate
is a one-shot program that syncs the local time with a given
ntp server).  We decided against using cron to run ntpdate on
the workstations 'cuz we've seen cron get royally confused on a
PI with a failing battery.  The program we wrote to run ntpdate
is based on time-intervals, not absolute-times like cron.

We originally used timed/timeslave as provided by SGI, but ran
into problems when our network bogged down.  Ntp seems to handle
things a lot better.

			robert
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