Re: tlug: Time

[Sam Julien <sam.julien@example.com>]

On a similar point (Perhaps the same), every time I have installed RH 6.0, I
 come up with system clock errors in the Xserver etc.

I dont have any more info re the errors, I have had to reinstall again. A bu
g prehaps?

Sam


At 17:22 99/09/07 +0900, Frank Bennett (フランクべネット ) wrote:
> We just installed a new Linux OS (Redhat 6.0 for Sparc) on one of our
> mailservers here.  In the course of tying bits of the new system into the
> surrounding network, I have run into a weird problem.  There is a timed
> daemon on the new system, which I hooked up for service in
> /etc/inetd.conf.  Sure enough, I now get a time back from this machine
> when I rdate against it from the other servers (running TL 3.0 at
> present).  But it isn't a time that I myself have ever set on a watch that
> I owned (because I didn't exist yet): 
> 
>   [root@example.com /root]# rdate 133.6.33.1
>   [133.6.33.1]    Mon Apr 28 01:25:08 1952
> 
> An error I would understand, but this is just bizzare.  Did someone change
> the protocol, or modify the source to the timed daemon in the past year or
> so?
> 
> My first thought was to drop timed and rdate and shift to 100% ntp for
> timekeeping; we use ntpdate to set our central server, and once set up it
> seems to have been rock solid.  But I seem to remember that configuring
> the xntp timeserver looked like a huge job, so I've shied away.
> 
> Suggestions, anyone?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> -x80
> Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
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