syncronizing clocks on workstations

[Bruce Barnett]

In article <1991May21.175317.12255 at Citicorp.COM> pdesh at Citicorp.COM (Peter Deshpande) writes:

>   Does anyone know a way to syncronize clocks on a network involving
>   many (sun) workstations and servers?

A simple solution is to add a
	rdate machine
in each machine's crotab file.

have the clients sync off the servers, and all of the servers sync off
one stable server. This works on SUNOS, but on Ultrix machines,
it seems to do an average of machines times. 


ntp is also a good solution. You get errors if the times are way out
of date. Using rdate can cause problems if your master has the wrong time.
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Bruce G. Barnett	barnett at crdgw1.ge.com	uunet!crdgw1!barnett