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Cc: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>,
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Subject: Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers
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Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> writes:
> Simply setting the date upon system boot and maybe once a day using
> cron to call ntpdate or whatever is probably good enough for any
> client machine, and OK for non-important servers where the exact
> timekeeping doesn't matter much.

Why, when setting up ntpd is so easy?

On your router:

# hostname
router.example.com
# cat >/etc/ntp.conf
server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org
^D
# cat >>/etc.rc.conf
ntpdate_enable=3D"YES"
ntpd_enable=3D"YES"
^D
# /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start
# /etc/rc.d/ntpd start

On every other machine in your network:

# cat >/etc/ntp.conf
server router.example.com
^D
# cat >>/etc.rc.conf
ntpdate_enable=3D"YES"
ntpd_enable=3D"YES"
^D
# /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start
# /etc/rc.d/ntpd start

Everything else is already taken care of.

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