[SUMMARY] Time synchronization
Here is a SUMMARY of some solutions contributed.
Thanks for your response.
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great program is xntpd. It is available from
ftp://huey.udel.edu/pub/ntp/xntpd3-5.93e.tar.gz
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With NTP. There's some version or other of it with Solaris these days, but
shit-hot-latest stuff comes from http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ or
thereabouts. You can synch decently-clocked machines on a LAN to within a
millisecond of each other relatively easily.
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Get and install NTP:
<http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/>
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I'd recommend using NTP daemon. If you have Solaris 2.6 (or higher),
then it came with OS (xntp version 3). Otherwise, you can get ntp
version 4 from http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ . Configure one
machine as server, others as clients and that should be it. ntp
daemon will make sure that all clocks are synchronized.
You can choose to use local clock on server as source of referent time
(with line of form "server 127.127.1.1" in ntp.conf file), or you can
synchronize with some of public refferent clocks, for example one of
the USNO time servers. There is list of public time servers at the
above URL also.
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Use rdate (Solaris command) or get xntp:
xntp : Sync server(s) to atomic clock
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp
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You can use "rdate hostname", where hostname is your NIS server.
I use to use each night with a cron root on all clients.
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I recommend xntpd (ntp).
Have a look at the Web pages under
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
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