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- This package provides the time server and time client routines as
- described in Time.memo.
-
- The files included in this distribution are:
-
- Makefile a standard make file
- Makefile.noinstall a make file which does not install
- README.1ST this file
- Time.memo an explanation of network time synchronization
- interex.paper paper given at HP Interex, Aug. 1992
- TIME_SET a script file which manages cron
- cronfile a sample cronfile
- etc.inetd.conf a sample /etc/inetd.conf entry
- etc.services a sample /etc/services entry
- time_set.1 a man page for time_set
- time_set.c source for the client time setter
- timecheck.1 a man page for the time checker
- timecheck.c source for the time checking program
- timesrv.1 a man page for the time server program
- timesrv.c source for the time server routine.
-
- timec.c a version of timecheck.c using the DARPA "time
- protocol" on TCP port 37
-
- These should operate with all BSD hosts, UNIX and non-UNIX. The
- function call "ntohl" is provided for compatibility with reverse-
- byte order hosts (DEC, Sun386i).
-
- A Makefile is provided for root to compile and install this code,
- using the command:
-
- make all
-
- Before executing this, read over the Makefile and make any
- customizations of directory path variables BIN and MAN, and
- CCOPTS as needed for your system.
-
- timesrv need only be installed on your designated time server, not on
- the time clients. See Time.memo.
-
- The cron process should be interrupted when system time is changed;
- the shell script TIME_SET is provided to do this. It too must be
- customized for Sun systems.
-
- To schedule TIME_SET by cron, move the file cronfile to
- /users/root/ and insert the minutes and hours of time into it,
- and "crontab cronfile" . A weekly or monthly scheduling should be
- sufficient.
-
- We offer the use on an experimental basis of our time server host,
- an HP9000/847S running HP-UX 8.02. Its Internet address is:
- tycho.usno.navy.mil (192.5.41.239).
-
- As always, no warranty is expressed or implied. "Caveat emptor."
-
- --R.E.Schmidt, TIME SERVICE, US NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON,D.C.
- (202)- 653-0487 Fax 202-653-0909
-
- res@tuttle.usno.navy.mil
-