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I'm running SuSE 9 and KDE and was looking for a tool that will sync
my clock with one of the many NTP time servers made available by NIST
and others. I have used D4Time in the past and currently use nistime
under Windows, but haven't had any luck in finding a Linux app to do
the same.
Where might I find such a tool?
Thanks.
Bill Lugg
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:39:53 -0800, William Lugg typed:
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> I'm running SuSE 9 and KDE and was looking for a tool that will sync my
> clock with one of the many NTP time servers made available by NIST and
> others. I have used D4Time in the past and currently use nistime under
> Windows, but haven't had any luck in finding a Linux app to do the same.
>
> Where might I find such a tool?[/color]
Enable and configure the ntpd daemon, it's part of the distro and should
already be available. Hint: right-click on the panel clock in KDE and
choose 'Adjust Date & Time...'
[url]http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpd.html[/url]
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"William Lugg" <william.lugg@cisf.af.mil> wrote in message
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> I'm running SuSE 9 and KDE and was looking for a tool that will sync
> my clock with one of the many NTP time servers made available by NIST
> and others. I have used D4Time in the past and currently use nistime
> under Windows, but haven't had any luck in finding a Linux app to do
> the same.
>
> Where might I find such a tool?[/color]
The Network Time Protocol can be had at [url]http://www.ntp.org/[/url]
Choose a time server near you from the list. I use a cron job to keep the
system and hardware clocks synch'd hourly:
23 * * * * ( /usr/sbin/ntpdate 128.105.39.11; /usr/sbin/hwclock --systohc ) > /dev/null 2>&1
tony
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I was under the impression that ntpd kept your clock from drifting too
widely, and that such a cron job was not needed.
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"M2@M" <patrickm@troop98.org> wrote in message
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> I was under the impression that ntpd kept your clock from drifting too
> widely, and that such a cron job was not needed.[/color]
I don't run ntpd. I cron ntpdate. You are certainly free to run whatever
utilities meet your needs, at whatever times suit you, or as a daemon.
Or not.
The OP's question was what and where to get it. It's assumed that they'll
read the documentation and make their own choices as well.
tony
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Lenard commented:
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> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:39:53 -0800, William Lugg typed:
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>> I'm running SuSE 9 and KDE and was looking for a tool that will sync my
>> clock with one of the many NTP time servers made available by NIST and
>> others. I have used D4Time in the past and currently use nistime under
>> Windows, but haven't had any luck in finding a Linux app to do the same.
>>
>> Where might I find such a tool?[/color]
>
> Enable and configure the ntpd daemon, it's part of the distro and should
> already be available. Hint: right-click on the panel clock in KDE and
> choose 'Adjust Date & Time...'
>
> [url]http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpd.html[/url]
>
>[/color]
Is there a way for a Linux server to update a Windows client?
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:33:05 -0600, "M2@M" <patrickm@troop98.org>
wrote:
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>I was under the impression that ntpd kept your clock from drifting too
>widely, and that such a cron job was not needed.[/color]
Not unless you have ntpd set up to use an external time source...
otherwise ntpd is just using your system clock as its 'authoritative'
time source, which is self-defeating, to put it lightly.
Mike-
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:34:57 +0000, jcrowder typed:
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>> Enable and configure the ntpd daemon, it's part of the distro and
>> should already be available. Hint: right-click on the panel clock in
>> KDE and choose 'Adjust Date & Time...'
>>
>> [url]http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpd.html[/url]
>>
>>
>>[/color]
> Is there a way for a Linux server to update a Windows client?[/color]
Yep, read the link already provided and install/use any of the Windows ntp
applications like NetTime, just use the Linux server's IP address.
[url]http://nettime.sourceforge.net/[/url]
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