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- From: dean@world.std.com (Dean S Banfield)
- Subject: Questions on timed daemon
- Message-ID: <DEAN.93Jan7230947@world.std.com>
- Sender: dean@world.std.com (Dean S Banfield)
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:09:47 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- We are running SCO (3.2.2) and have recently had a call to offer netwide
- time synch services on our (mostly Novell) Ethernet. Novell can synch up
- the DOS world to the Novell server, but that has left our UNIX box and
- unix users un-synched.
-
- I fired up the timed daemon, expecting our FTP PC/TCP users to happily
- be able to settime (I think that's the FTP module). It didn't work, and
- setting timed tracing on indicates that a !?LOOPBACK?! function has
- occurred to address 127.0.0.1 when the FTP time request is issued. The
- same LOOPBACK trace occurs when another product, the DOS newsreader TRUMPET,
- tries to get the time for timestamping news postings with GMT.
-
- As a program, timed seems fairly straghtforward, but the [SCO] man page
- is pretty weak about possible calls to timed, and nowhere can I find
- the LOOPBACK call mentioned. What is going on here?
-
- On another tack, even if I get this working, I'll have two separate universes:
- Novell and TCP/IP, on different time synchs. Is there any crossover possible
- without buying some huge amount of TCP/IP from Novell or Novell support from
- SCO?
-
- Thank you in advance for any insight you can lend to the problem.
-
- -Dean
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