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I would like to have a variety of minis (all Unix & 1 VMS), workstations and
novell servers have the same time. Is there an agent can serve across
these platforms. And are their external time servers that can be used
to set a local server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Quote:>I would like to have a variety of minis (all Unix & 1 VMS), workstations and
>novell servers have the same time. Is there an agent can serve across
>these platforms. And are their external time servers that can be used
>to set a local server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello,
we're using xntp3 to do this. Synchronizes times on machines on our
local network very exact. There are timeservers to connect to with
xntp. So you have the exact (tm) time.
It compiles and runs under hp-ux and AIX, we could not get it to work
with A/UX, but maybe new versions will work. There are config files
for a lot of machines like sun, VAX (ultrix), hp, i386, mips, rs6000,
sgi, sony, NeXT....

        Michael

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Michael Staats, Theoretical Physics, Uni-GH Duisburg

On the suns (I am not sure if it is a sun-specific or general unix) you can
use the command 'rdate' for setting the system date from a remote host.
You may be able to get the source and port it to the VMS (if it does not have
a version of its own).

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->I would like to have a variety of minis (all Unix & 1 VMS), workstations and
->novell servers have the same time. Is there an agent can serve across
->these platforms. And are their external time servers that can be used
->to set a local server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
->
->+-------------------+------------------------------+-------------------+
->|   Sean A Temple   | Computer Systems Coordinator |>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|

->|Rootstown, OH 44272|College of Medicine | NEOUCOM |>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>//|
->+-------------------+------------------------------+--------------\\//-+

        There is a program called xntp that will get time from an
external server and set the clockof the machine its running on.  We
have a network of suns here and thats how we sync our machines.  I'm
not sure how portable it is but I know it runs under more than a few
Operating systems.  If you give it a try, make sure you get version
3.

        -Scott

Quote:>On the suns (I am not sure if it is a sun-specific or general unix) you can
>use the command 'rdate' for setting the system date from a remote host.
>You may be able to get the source and port it to the VMS (if it does not have
>a version of its own).

   The C source code for rdate for VMS 5.5 and UCX 2.0 is available
through anonymous ftp from ftp.ccsn.edu in /pub/rdate.  I, too, would
recommend that you run xntp3 on your Unix machines and then use rdate
once a day to synchronize the VAX.
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