Re: [SLE] Clock sync with OS X && Setting time

Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:41:36 -0500 "John N. Alegre" wrote:

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Anybody know of any software that will snyc SuSE with a OS X system. Apple makes it duck soup easy to keep the OS X system synced with GMT. I wanna sync SuSE to the Mac.

As mentioned by James and Marcos, use ntpd. You will be much much better if you sync both systems with an external time source. OS X is really FreeBSD under the covers, and it is probably using an xntpd daemon.

Or, either system can be used as a time server or client, but the simplest, most straight forward thing is simply to sync of the same external source.

additionally Paul Ikanza wrote:

Hey guys, this is an easy one, How do I set the time on my linux box-don't seem to figure out how?

What about netdate? Just install it with yast2 and add something like ping -c 1 -w 5 your_time_servers > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ "$?" != 0 ] ; then echo "Master clock server unreachable" else echo "Sync date" /usr/sbin/netdate tcp your_time_servers > /dev/null fi to boot.local or in a cronjob. I don't know if it works with OS X but the manpage sounds like it. And I don't know if this isn't overkill for Paul's problem. I just don't like ntpd :-) Kolja