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From: berni@act (Berni Ernst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: rdate for FreeBSD
Date: 11 May 1997 10:34:09 GMT
Organization: PUM => Private Unix Machines
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Hi !
I studied the thread about rdate and xntpd with high interest.
My problem is that I have to sysadmin a heterogenous unix
network with 2 Linux time servers with dcf77 atomic clocks.
Both machines are running xntpd 3.4.
A couple of clients wants to get the correct time from these
servers. Running xntpd on all machines is a bad solution (is it?)
because the machines are shut down every night and sometimes
during a day. I understand xntpd as a long term philosophie
but what I need is a quick time correction every day.

The problem: when I start ntpdate on a time client (after
killing the xtnpd process) and run ntpdate TIMESERVER I
always get the message:
no timeserver found for synchronization.

A year ago with xntpd 3.3 this worked fine. Running xntpd
on all machines again basicly works but is not a good
solution.

Any hints from the time gurus ?

thx
berni


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