Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!Anselmo-Ed From: Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: timed problems? Message-ID: Date: 25 May 90 15:05:26 GMT References: <103@bohra.cpg.oz> <1990May25.141139.14193@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 16 In-reply-to: roy@phri.nyu.edu's message of 25 May 90 14:11:39 GMT >>>>> On 25 May 90 14:11:39 GMT, roy@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. -- Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed