Xref: utzoo comp.unix.admin:1916 comp.unix.questions:31539 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: syncronizing clocks on workstations Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 10:37:22 GMT References: <1991May21.175317.12255@Citicorp.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Followup-To: comp.unix.admin Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: pdesh@Citicorp.COM's message of 21 May 91 17:53:17 GMT In article <1991May21.175317.12255@Citicorp.COM> pdesh@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 You get errors if the times are way out of date.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. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crdgw1.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett