Dear Togan... I can not find any place to define the timeserver. Could you tell me I should define the timeserver? Could you give the address and the name of the timeservers those I can use from duisburg-germany? Is here the place/line, " ## Outside source of synchronized time ## ## server xx.xx.xx.xx # IP address of server "? Thank you very much. --- Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Prabu Subroto; on 15 Jan, 2004 wrote:

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Is it enough to make the xntp keep the clock of each machine be always correct? do I have to edit/configure "/etc/ntp.conf"?

you have to use a timeserver so your ntp clients will refer to. Hence editing the /etc/ntp.conf is required

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On Monday 19 January 2004 6:17 am, Prabu Subroto wrote:

Dear Togan...

I can not find any place to define the timeserver.

Could you tell me I should define the timeserver? Could you give the address and the name of the timeservers those I can use from duisburg-germany?

The best way to set up xntpd is through Yast2. Go to System / Editor for sysconfig / Network / NTP, and you'll find several relevant settings. However, you're best off to insert the timeserver IP addresses in the referenced configuration file /etc/ntp.conf. In addition to that, I found I had to twiddle the /etc/init.d entries so that xntpd actually queried the timeservers on bootup, but I no longer remember how I did that. I can say, though, that doing a recursive grep on /etc for ntp showed me where to look. As to timeservers in Germany, someone else will have to help with that. Paul Abrahams

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* Marek Chlopek (Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:58:52PM +0100)

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I installed the xntp from the cd, and start the service on runlevel editor tool (xntpd) and do "rcxntpd start".

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either on the server and client I did the same.

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Is it enough to make the xntp keep the clock of each machine be always correct? do I have to edit/configure "/etc/ntp.conf"?

You need to use yast to configure ntp (initial server, peers &c) You can also edit ntp.conf directly, but the yast way is easier.

I don't use ntp daemon. ntpdate will be your friend. No it's not.

Cron will start every three hours (@ XX:15) time synchronization and hardware clock adjustment.

If you do this, ntpdate will forcefully change your system clock to the right time. However X (and most notably motif) can get quite confused in this case. Im not sure of the exact casue, but I think it's realted to the following:\ X is event driven, each event has a timestamp associated with it. If ntpdate changes the systemclock back, it might be that events that came later have an earlier timestamp, consfusing the Xserver. In my case, this showed up as Motif pulldown menus no longer responding (but keeping the mouse cursor locked) untill you used the cursor keys/enter key to leave the menu. And X is only the most visible effect. many other apps don;t like it if the time changes more than a few seconds. xntpd handles this scenario gracefully by drifting the clokc (slowing it down or speeding it up) until it gets in sync with the real time clock In other words. xntpd is your friend ntpdate is your foe read /usr/share/doc/packages/xntp-doc for full details Currently listening to: 12 - save me Gerhard, == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O For prosimian fun, you can bugger a lemur =`\<, To bolster your name as a pervert and schemer (=)/(=) The lemurs cry "Frink!" as a coy mating call But the hedgepod can never be buggered at all.

Dear my friend, Gerhard... But I could not find any menu for xntp neither on yast nor yast2. Could you tell me more detail to use yast2 to configure xntp using yast2? TIC so much. --- Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

* Marek Chlopek (Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:58:52PM +0100)

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I installed the xntp from the cd, and start the service on runlevel editor tool (xntpd) and do "rcxntpd start".

...

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either on the server and client I did the same.

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Is it enough to make the xntp keep the clock of each machine be always correct? do I have to edit/configure "/etc/ntp.conf"?

You need to use yast to configure ntp (initial server, peers &c) You can also edit ntp.conf directly, but the yast way is easier.

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I don't use ntp daemon. ntpdate will be your friend. No it's not.

...

Cron will start every three hours (@ XX:15) time synchronization and hardware clock adjustment.

If you do this, ntpdate will forcefully change your system clock to the right time. However X (and most notably motif) can get quite confused in this case.

Im not sure of the exact casue, but I think it's realted to the following:\ X is event driven, each event has a timestamp associated with it. If ntpdate changes the systemclock back, it might be that events that came later have an earlier timestamp, consfusing the Xserver.

In my case, this showed up as Motif pulldown menus no longer responding (but keeping the mouse cursor locked) untill you used the cursor keys/enter key to leave the menu.

And X is only the most visible effect. many other apps don;t like it if the time changes more than a few seconds. xntpd handles this scenario gracefully by drifting the clokc (slowing it down or speeding it up) until it gets in sync with the real time clock

In other words. xntpd is your friend ntpdate is your foe

read /usr/share/doc/packages/xntp-doc for full details

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The Monday 2004-01-19 at 03:20 -0800, Prabu Subroto wrote:

But I could not find any menu for xntp neither on yast nor yast2. Could you tell me more detail to use yast2 to configure xntp using yast2?

Not on suse 8.2, that's only 9.0. Use your favourite text editor. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson