From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 11:30:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp3fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24ACA37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.168.80.161] ([24.168.80.161]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:30:53 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: stevenl@pop.dnai.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:29:13 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Steve Leibel Subject: Re: synchrnozing time among a freebsd, linux and windows2k machine Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:21 PM -0500 1/27/01, Jonathan Smith wrote: >I'd like to setup my freebsd server to every so often update it's time >against a 'known' intenet clock, but also have a slackware and a win2k >machine update their clocks off the freebsd machine so that I can avoid >annoyances such as make's famous 'file has modification time in the >future', etc. Look up NTP, the Network Time Protocol. You can set up your machines to synch up against a known, highly-accurate clock; or you can set up one machine as an NTP server and have your other machines synch to it. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message