Re: [Sheflug] Syncronizing clocks with ntp[date|d]

[Andy Davidson <nospam [at] vidson.org.uk>]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> I've got a Debian box with the ntpd and ntpdate packages installed.
> How should I go about setting up that one box to get the time from the
> NTP servers? Just run ntpd with the correct IPs in /etc/ntp.conf?

Hey up.

This is how I do it on my Debian woody machines..

In /etc/rc.d/ntpdate there's a space for putting a list of ntp servers to
be queried at machine boot time.

You'd just put the details of your ntp server there.

If the machine drift isn't *too* bad, you could run ntpdate to query a
computer like rolex.ripe.net when you are online.  I tend to do this every
few weeks or so.


Or get it to do it each time you go online (on the gateway computer).

run :

echo "ntpdate rolex.ripe.net" >> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/gettime
chmod a+x /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/gettime




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