ntp-4.1.0: description + notes

NTP
Network Time Protocol.

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example. Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and reliability. Some configurations include cryptographic authentication to prevent accidental or malicious protocol attacks and some provide automatic server discovery using IP multicast.

NOTE: This package will only work on IRIX 6.5 systems. It was built with the MIPSpro 7.3 compilers. If you are running on IRIX 6.5.9 or earlier you must install the following patches (or their successors):

  • patch 3911 (19 MB) -- compiler_eoe (except libmp)

Patches can be downloaded from http://www.sgi.com/support/patch_intro.html.

By installing this package, your system will be modified in the following ways:

  1. chkconfig ntp on
  2. chkconfig timed off
  3. chkconfig timeslave off

When NTP is started, it will automatically find other NTP servers on your subnet via the broadcast mechanism. If you want to point at a specific NTP server, you need to edit /etc/init.d/ntp.

Vince Levey configured and built this package.

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