[rhn-users] Re: NTP

[Florez, Nestor]

I thought that rhn-users meant Discussion group for Users of Red Hat

uhm....

Néstor :-)

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[mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Shawn Parker
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:52 AM
To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Re: NTP


if this list is only about up2date issues, where is the general red
hat support mailing list?

On 11/3/06, Alfred Hovdestad <alfred.hovdestad at usask.ca> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> First, this doesn't really belong on the RHN list.  This list is for
> issues dealing with the Red Hat up2date service (RHN aka Red Hat Network).
>
> Secondly, you can run ntpdate out of a cron job to make hourly (or
> daily) connections to an NTP server.
>
>     Alfred Hovdestad
>     University of Saskatchewan
>
>
>
> Nick Baronian wrote:
> > Oops, the -p tcp was a typo on my part.
> > What I am really getting at is if there is a way to have ntp work like
> > some other client apps.  I want to sync to redhat's time server but I
> > don't want to have a constant connection.  Kinda like if I was ssh'ing
> > or ftp'ing into a server.  The server would be running the ssh/ftp
> > service and have port 22 or 21 open but my machine would open a random
> > non-priv port get my payload and then close it.
> > Is NTP different because the polling is so frequent?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
>
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