From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 21:58:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17779 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.ainet.com (mailhub.ainet.com [204.30.40.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17766 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:58:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from shell.ainet.com (jmscott@shell.ainet.com [204.30.40.108]) by mailhub.ainet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA14498; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by shell.ainet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01223; for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Jan 99 22:00:27 PST Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:00:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Scott" To: bsd Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: cron and NT scheduler In-Reply-To: <36A6A286.9A9CAF21@capgemini.com.sg> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, bsd wrote: > Hi > > I have encountered a problem with sychronizing a WindozeNT and FreeBSD. > Can anybody help? I can give it a try. > > Description: > > I need to start a program in FreeBSD and another program on NT at the > same time, I know i can set the cron for FreeBSD and scheduler for NT, > but on events that the clocks don't sychronise, there may be some > delays. > > Is there a way to activate a program (on NT) from FreeBSD or vice versa? Well, I've used perl on NT with the Net::Telnet module to log into a FreeBSD machine a do some work, then when it's done do some more work on the NT machine. I don't know if that exactly addresses your problem since you wanted to do them both at the same time. You could sync the time on the NT machine with an ntp client and run an ntp server on the FreeBSD machine, but depending on that seems to Just Not Feel Right (tm). I'm sure there are other solutions, the nature of the tasks may provide for other options. > Best Regards and thanks in advance, > > Chan * Joseph M. Scott * jmscott@ainet.com * American InfoMetrics * Modesto, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message