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From: robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: timed/ntpd
Message-ID: <15152@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 90 21:44:04 GMT
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Organization: Office of Information Technology, Georgia Tech
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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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Robert Viduya					   robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu
Technical Services / Office of Information Technology
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