timed problems?
Ed Anselmo
Anselmo-Ed at cs.yale.edu
Sat May 26 01:05:26 AEST 1990
>>>>> On 25 May 90 14:11:39 GMT, roy at phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) said:
Roy> Most of our machines are 4-Meg diskless workstations, on which
Roy> memory is a critical resource. I havn't yet decided if running
Roy> ntpd on all of them is worth it, but the choice is between ntpd
Roy> and rdate-on-bootup-then-freerun, not between ntdp and timed.
You don't have to run ntpd on all the workstations. You can do
something like
0 * * * * sleep `expr $$ % 60`;/usr/local/etc/ntp -s -f ntpd-host1 ntp-host2
out of cron to keep the workstation clocks in sync with the machines
running ntpd.
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Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed at cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed
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