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Re: Network time protocol



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:28:50PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Sajjad" == Sajjad Zaidi <sajjad@example.com> writes:
>     Sajjad> I have it in the file '/etc/ntp/step-tickers'.
> 
> Huh?  Never heard of such a file; AFAIK Debian's package is up to date
> (ver. 4.0.99g) so it could be RH-specific.

I believe it is.  The RedHat startup script uses /etc/ntp/step-tickers
(if it exists) to get the date close with ntpdate before starting
the daemon.

> On my box all ntp config info is in /etc/ntp.conf.  Probably you have
> to run RH's config utility to create the ntp.conf file.

Or edit the existing /etc/ntp.conf by hand and add your
preferred server.


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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586


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