Re: [cobalt-users] NTP

["Colin J. Raven" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:47:20 -0500 (EST), Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Schadroff wrote:

>> I want to start xntpd (or ntpd) daemon each time my RaQ starts.
>>
>>
>> Is it a way to do that (no litterature in list archive) ?

> from a shell session as root execute,
> chkconfig ntpd on
> Then execute,
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd start
>
>
> The first one will start it on boot
> the second gets it started now!

Gerald, is it not true that you must specify in an ntpd.conf file what 
time servers you want to use? I seem to recall that setting up NTP is 
not exactly trivial though I haven't actually done a full-blown ntp 
since I admin'd AIX boxes, and I still shudder thinking about how that 
was. (NTP, not AIX!) :-)

In FreeBSD the conf files are in /etc. In my RAQ days I never had cause 
to set it up.

     /etc/ntp.conf   the default name of the configuration file
     /etc/ntp.drift  the default name of the drift file
     /etc/ntp.keys   the default name of the key file

Then things get a bit complex - depending on what your NOC setup is, and 
precisely what use you want NTP to serve.

As always, just my $0.02 worth.
-Colin