network time settings - was Re: Decrypt Passwords

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 08:06 am, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> From: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>
>
> > time', but I want to make sure that box's dates set right first.
> >
> > I also want to set up so my other unixen sync to this box too.
>
> The ntpd script, AFAIK, only synchs this box to another boxes time.  I
> can't remember what the package is that lets you set this box up as a time
> server for other boxes...

it seems to me that ntpd does both. But I maybe wrong. I have use one box to 
sync with the outside ntpd server (was it ntp.redhat.com ? something like 
that), and then use that to sync other boxen who cannot see outside world to 
sync with the first box. As far as I recall, I only needed to switch ntpd on

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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