[NTLUG:Discuss] timed Help

[MadHat]

Greg E wrote:
> 
> Well I didn't get any responses from my question so I'll toss it out
> again.
> 
> Anyone using timed to sync their network clocks?  I'm running RH5.2
> and I don't find an adjtime executable anywhere on my system and as
> a result every 10 days or so my master's clock blows up and sets a
> new random (it seems) date sometime in the future.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Greg E
> 

How many machines?  There are public time servers you can connect to get
your time set.  
ntpd is the daemon that handles this, I know it is on RH6, but I don't
have a 5.2 system in front of me.  (There is also an RPM you can grab,
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/xntp3-5.93-12.i386.rpm
or
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/old-releases/redhat-5.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/xntp3-5.93-4.i386.rpm
for the 5.2, but I would say grab the 6.0 for the newest version, but I
am not 100% sure on compatibility).

The URL to look at would be...
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/

I have set it up before.  It isn't too hard.  It does drifting rather
than just changing the time, so it won't make log files and such look
really wierd by loosing time into a void. (like time skipping 10
minutes, it will gradually speed up or slow down your clock to get it
back to the correct time).

sorry I don't have more info.

-- 
MadHa