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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: NTP Time?
- Message-ID: <ud00eh0@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <C08w41.65J@rahul.net>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:55:57 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <C08w41.65J@rahul.net>, jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger) writes:
- >
- > I recently FTPed the NTP time server software and have tried compiling it
- > on my SGI running IRIX 4.0.5 However...with no luck. Has anyone gotten this
- > to compile, or can suggest an alternate time package? Thanks.
-
-
- The NTP version of NTP from sgigate.sgi.com should work fine. The
- "Information Services" people within SGI use it a lot.
-
- There are also "timeslave" and "timed" shipped standard as part of
- IRIX.
-
- `xntpd` or `timeslave` can be used to synchronize the clock of one
- machine to an external standard, such as machine on the Internet with a
- good NTP connections, a radio receiver, or (with timeslave) just some
- other machine offering standard TCP services that has a trusted clock.
- Then `timed` can be used to synchronize a passle of IRIR's to the first
- machine. This is how the several thousand machines in the Silicon
- Graphics network are synchronized.
-
- `timed` is shipped installed and turned on by default so that an
- ethernet (or other LAN) of IRIS's have synchronized clocks "out of the
- box."
-
- It all works just fine, provided your external source is not crazy.
- Just now our WWV receiver is reporting a time and date that is exactly
- 24 hours wrong. When you primary standard goes crazy, there's not much
- you can do.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-