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From: bob@morningstar.com (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: time synchronization on Suns
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Date: 5 Jun 91 14:17:00 GMT
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Use NTP on everything.  In particular, get the current version from
louie.udel.edu:pub/ntp/xntp/xntp.tar.Z, which corrals SPARCstations'
wayward clocks better than the older ntp.

If you have some systems that can't run NTP but instead require timed
chimes, then run a timed master on one system that's already also
running xntpd, but castrate it so that it won't adjtime() and
interfere with xntpd.  Run normal timeds on the systems that need
them.  The goal is to use NTP to provide your time reference and keep
most of your systems in tick, and then use timed as a last resort to
distribute chimes to only those systems that can't run NTP.