From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 10:19:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDE314F59 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:19:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11OiAU-0008wq-00; Wed, 08 Sep 1999 14:53:46 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11OiAS-0006W3-00; Wed, 08 Sep 1999 14:53:44 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:53:43 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ian Diddams Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Timed master Message-ID: <19990908145343.B24134@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <87vh9mns5q.fsf@ralf.serv.net> <37D65CCC.2D81F894@freenet.uk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37D65CCC.2D81F894@freenet.uk.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Diddams wrote: > I must be missing somethuing (a brain?) but what is a timed master, or > how does one start? The man pages merely indicate that timed looks for > a master on its ocal network, but doesn't say exactly how to run said > master! If you run `timed -M', that time daemon will become a master if no other master is on the network, or if the master goes down. What I do is run `timed -F scientia' (on the machine called scientia), which I believe forces that machine to be a master (-F scientia means "only trust scientia (i.e. myself) to have the right time", or something). Run timed -M on other machines on your LAN which you want to become a master (you can use more than one, they won't both end up being a master) if the master goes down, and with no arguments on all the slave machines. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message