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From: bob@wizard.uucp (Bob Smith)
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Subject: Re: syncronizing clocks on workstations
Message-ID: <1991May23.014145.212@wizard.uucp>
Date: 23 May 91 01:41:45 GMT
References: <1991May21.175317.12255@Citicorp.COM> <1991May21.201152.9655@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In <1991May21.201152.9655@cis.ohio-state.edu> george@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) writes:

> pdesh@Citicorp.COM (Peter Deshpande) writes:
>     
>     Does anyone know a way to syncronize clocks on a network involving
>     many (sun) workstations and servers?
>     Is there any program out there (clock daemon) which could run on all
>     the machines to keep the clocks in sync.
>     Thanks in advance

> Try ntp.  I think you can get the latest via anonymous FTP 
> from louie.udel.edu in pub/ntp

...or...

rdate will read the date/time from a specfied host and set the date/time
of the local machine accordingly, I've never tried it, but it should be
possible to cron up rdate periodically to keep clocks sync'd.(?)

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