Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3 - Time Keeping

[Adam Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My understanding is if you use the xntp rpm package it comes with a time
server you can run on any PC and use ntpdate to get the time from it.  I
may be wrong tho, its second hand information.

			Adam

Respect my .Xauthoritah!
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|Adam Williams                  adam@xxxxxxxxxx             |
|Network Administrator          Vicksburg Chemical Company  |
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Brent Sims wrote:

> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Aeron Jarrett so wrote:
> 
> } Do we have to pay for use of an NTP server?
> 
> 	No - Yes, depending upon your point of view. The vast
> majority of NTP servers are free for the using. Then again, if you
> reside in the US your tax dollars are helping to pay for them and
> there are commercial services which supply time critical operations 
> for a price - usually a rather high price.
> 
> 	There are some nuances involved though so it pays to read
> the criteria for each of the publically accessible servers. Keeping
> them free and freely accessible is only possible if we play by the
> rules... For the most part the operators of the NTP servers would
> like most of us to stay away from the primary servers and use the
> rest of the pack. That translates into our time being off by a few
> milliseconds or so - close enough for Government work :-)
> 
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