Re: tlug: Time

["Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" <jens-ulrik.petersen@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

> >>>>> "FB" == "Frank Bennett" <bennett@example.com> writes:
> 
>     FB> There is a timed daemon on the new system, which I hooked up
>     FB> for service in /etc/inetd.conf.  Sure enough, I now get a time
>     FB> back from this machine when I rdate against it from the other
>     FB> servers (running TL 3.0 at present).

There's a timed in Redhat 6.0 too, in the "timed" package, though I
don't use it myself: I synchronize my Linux box to our local unix
servers with xntp.

> I don't seem to have a timed installed on any of my Debian systems; in 
> fact, I can't even seem to find a package which provides it.  But all
> of my systems seem to give sensible responses to rdate inquiries.  Out 
> of curiosity, I checked 133.6.33.1, and it's still giving exactly the
> same date:  Mon Apr 28 01:25:08 1952.

> According to the rdate manpage, RFC 868 is "usually implemented" in
> inetd, not a separate server.  And in fact grepping /etc/inetd.conf
> and /etc/services gives

Yes, I think rdate and timed are not related, probably timed
implements an alternative to ntp.

> daytime		stream	tcp	nowait	root	internal
> #daytime	dgram	udp	wait	root	internal
> time		stream	tcp	nowait	root	internal
> #time		dgram	udp	wait	root	internal

Thanks for the tip: I realized that rdat'ing my own machine didn't
work so I went to inetd.conf and sure enough the time/tcp line was
commented out.  Works now.

> BTW, if you're still interested in CODA, 5.2.7 is definitely usable
> (on i386 systems, for the first time since about 4.6.5 when I first
> tried it).  5.3.1 is out, but I don't know how reliable it is.  And
> I dunno if it works on Sparc, yet.

What was CODA again?

Jens
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