network time settings - was Re: Decrypt Passwords

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:28:11PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Do you have an example ntp.conf that I could have a look at.  Also, could you 
> explain about the authenticatin and the /etc/ntp/keys file.  Do I need to 
> know about this if all I want to do is have one box sync to a remote box and 
> then have local boxes sync to that.

You should be able to get away with something as simple as:

# redhat-config-time
# chkconfig ntpd on
# service ntpd start

You'll need to make sure that you're actually synchronizing with:
# /usr/sbin/ntpq -pn

If your workstations are synchronizing to you, you need to make sure
that they're using ntp or turn on the simpler time services that some
clock sync apps use:
# chkconfig time on
# chkconfig daytime on
Both have udp variants (time-udp and daytime-udp) that you may need.  To
verify that these are running do:
# telnet localhost daytime

If you've got a firewall, you'll also need to make sure that these ports
make it through.

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