Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:53:16 -0400 From: Paul Murphy <pmurphy@earthling.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Timed master Message-ID: <37D9E03C.89F34E66@earthling.net> References: <199909090335.XAA03254@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > 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! > > You are not missing anything. The timed(8) manpage, to use a technical > term, sucks the Big One (I have a PR in on it since June, > docs/11978). You can kind of infer from the wording of the timed(8) > manpage that there is some type of election process for the timed > master. However, you can force a machine to only trust certain > machines as masters with the '-F' switch (or so I gather from reading > between the lines). If you, > > # timed -F localhost > Timed will negotiate between servers that are started "timed -M" for mastery. Servers that are not started with the -M or -F option will never be masters. -- pmurphy@earthling.net http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/1913/ "I am not going to be happy until my living room looks like NORAD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?37D9E03C.89F34E66>