NTp time servers

[TheLinuxDuck]

How can I go about setting up an inner office time server on our linux server?

I have a source package for the newest version of NTP, but I was hoping to get some insight in it before trying to do so, and wreaking havoc on my system.

Anybody have any insight or pointers or whatnot?

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TheLinuxDuck
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[klamath]

I personally prefer using rdate - it's really simple (although if you're running a public timeserver with thousands of clients, perhaps a more dedicated, recent package would be better). To use it:

1) install rdate on all the clients. It's installed by default with most copies of Linux. For most other UNIXes, it's about 10K of code. I don't know if a Win32 port is available, but it would be trivial to code (rdate's protocol is documented by RFCs, and is very, very simple).
2) enable the 'time' service in /etc/inetd.conf on the server, and restart inetd.

Done.

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- Klamath
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[iDxMan]

For the handful of PC's at home I use NTP.. The gateway server is synced to various other time servers on the internet, then all internal machines sync to the gateway. There's not much to it --> really.

Basically, when each PC boots up it executes the ntpdate ip.of.gateway then starts up the ntp daemon to keep in sync.

Is that a vague enough answer? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

I did have slight issues between the time ntp set and the time that windows reported when I dual-boot for games. It was usually 3 or 5 hours off (can't remember right now) so I figured it had to be something with GMT format vs EST via Windows. I set each linux box that dual-boots to store time US/Eastern, then set windows to EST and not to adjust for DST. It seems to work.

-r

[posterboy]

I did a page on this at: www.raymondjones.net/ntpguide.html (http://www.raymondjones.net/ntpguide.html)
It's easy to get going, and is one of those things that "just works", with no attention from the op at all, and thank you Dr. Mills.
Ray


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[TheLinuxDuck]

Hey doodz, thanks for the qool info and replies. Klamath, the only trouble is that the machines I want to sync are windows machines. I suppose I could investigate the standards, and code the clients myself, but I figured there was already something like this out there that worked well. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

Posterboy, I'm getting ready to read yer deal.. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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TheLinuxDuck
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[The King Ant]

There are windows NTP clients. I'm not sure if there are any free ones though... I used a shareware one a little while ago that was pretty nice. I'd searching Yahoo! for ntp. If there aren't any win clients directly listed, I'm sure there are links to some from ntp pages.

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