[NTLUG:Discuss] xntpd

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, 19 May 2000 10:25:08 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"George E. Lass" <George.Lass at osc.com>  said:
> I am trying to get xntpd to work on my RedHat 5.2 system.
> It seems to be keeping the time up to date just fine when
> viewed with the "date" command, but there seems to be a 
> problem with it *not* updating the CMOS time when viewed
> with the "clock" command.
> 
> I have tried both the object RPM from the distro CD-ROM
> as well as the source RPM, but neither one seems to be
> able to update CMOS.
> 
> I know CMOS updates used to work on the RedHat 4.2 distro.
> 
> Any one know anything about this problem?

A couple of things you may want to do:

a) Add to /etc/ntp.conf:
   server 127.127.1.1
   fudge  127.127.1.1 stratum 10

My cfengine configuration configures this all thus:

files:
   { /etc/ntp.conf
        AppendIfNoSuchLine "peer dantzig"
        AppendIfNoSuchLine "peer salesman"
        AppendIfNoSuchLine "server 127.127.1.1"
        AppendIfNoSuchLine "fudge  127.127.1.1 stratum 10"
        AppendIfNoSuchLine "peer firewall"
   }
   firewall::
   { /etc/ntp.conf
        AppendIfNoSuchLine "server ntlug.org"
	AppendIfNoSuchLine "server ntp0.cornell.edu"
	AppendIfNoSuchLine "server eagle.tamu.edu"
	AppendIfNoSuchLine "server black.hex.net"
   }

b) You may want to take the system clock and push to CMOS
   clock once in a while (especially when you shut down!) using
   hwclock.  The latter is the crucial bit; it appears that it has been
   renamed from "clock" to "hwclock."

	hwclock --systohc

   is the likely command you want.
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