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ntpdate

SCO systems may have the older ntpd or the newer xntpd. Check the man pages and don't try to run both.

From: Stephan Rothstein <srothstein@netrax.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: xntpd config help on 2 SCO 5.05 boxes
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:04:31 -0600
Message-ID: <38C06F2F.436C8F55@netrax.net> 
References: <38BEE427.342268F6@industrialtv.com> 

lec maj wrote:
> 
> I have 2 Sco 5.05 boxes and wanted to syncronize them in time. They are
> on a local lan and there is no connection to outside world. There is one
> trick though. If either machine ever dies it has to come up and get the
> time from the other one that was already up. So that means that somehow
> both have to be master and slave at the same time.
> 
> I am mainly concerned on how i should set up the /etc/ntp.conf
> 
> Thank you
> Lec

I think I would consider using ntpdate running in cron on both machines
pointed at the other system.  On my network, I use it once each day but
you can set them to run more often if better synchronization is needed.
Then in each start up you could add a  line to sync to the other. I
would probably add a file named S99sync in the /etc/rc2.d directory with
the ntpdate command.

Note that ntpdate won't work if xntpd is running, check man for both.

Hope that is some help.

Steve Rothstein

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