On Monday 02 October 2006 00:12, Daniel Bauer wrote:
On Monday 02 October 2006 00:28, James Knott wrote:
John wrote:
If I want to get my server to periodically check against a time server, is it just a question of adding ntpd into cronjob or is there more to it (parameters, gotchas, etc?)
It's a lot easier than that. Just configure NTP in Yast to point to your favourite time server and save the settings. There is nothing more to do. NTP will determine how often it has to phone home.
After configuring this in Yast, is there a way to see if NTP really checks and corrects the time and when and how much?
Yeah, but don't rush off to do it. Time sync takes a few minutes the first time but then it will keep it spot on. As root: xntpdc That will give you a ntpdc> prompt. They type peers and you get something like this: ntpdc> peers remote local st poll reach delay offset disp ======================================================================= =LOCAL(0) 127.0.0.1 10 64 377 0.00000 0.000000 0.03088 *bigben.cac.wash 206.174.72.90 1 1024 177 0.04111 -0.015224 0.27734 If you list more than one time server in Yast (Its a good idea to do so) then the one with the asterisk is the one you are synked to. You exit xntpdc with exit. help for help. man for man ;-) -- _____________________________________ John Andersen