linux time sync broadcast

[lrhogusa]

Hello All,

I know of K9linux that listens for a time broadcast.

Is there anything for linux that will broadcast the time?

Thanks,
Roy

[lds0062@cdc.net]

'ntp' or 'ntpd' is client/server time synchronization package that most Linux installations use to synchronize time. You can set up your ntp.conf file so your server will broadcast. For instance, we have a Linux box that is the master time server for our corporation, and it gets updated from Internet time servers.

[lrhogusa]

Hello Ids0062

Thanks for the reply. I had read RedHat's ntp package and seemed to me it did the same thing as k9 from tardis. I'll go back and reread it or just go to ntp.org

Once again, thank you for your reply.
Roy

[lrhogusa]

I now have a ntp server and clients running.

My IT Manager prefers I get rid of my server. Make all the linux boxes clients and have them listen for broadcasts from our original MS time server using Tardis.

I don't know what to put in the clients /etc/ntp.conf file so that they use broadcasts from a time server. I ignorantly just pointed to the server in the file but got a connect (sync) failure.

Anyone know what to do? I'm getting lost in the docs.
Thank you.