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From: [e-mail] (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Sync'ing clocks
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 18:59:46 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (James Petts) writes:

| In article <[e-mail]> Matthew Koebbe,
| [e-mail] writes:
| >  The clocks on our SGI workstations (3 Personals and a 380 Power
| Station)
| >are continually drifting.  We'd appreciate any input on how to
| automatically
| >sync these things, say, once a day?
|
| The best way to sync clocks on a small network is to use timed(1M). The
| man page for this is quite lucid. You will need to make sure timed is
| turned on using chkconfig. The actual command which turns timed on is in
| /etc/init.d/network, which is executed at boot.

Or large networks.  Most of the > 2000 systems on the SGI campus
on about 100 Class C nets use timed to keep the clocks in sync.
Another big chunk use xntp (including most of our WAN, but that
is as much because of the group responsible for WAN sites as anything
else, timed does work fine on WANs).
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