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Hello, UNIX ADMINs

I am very new to the UNIX admin field. Actually I am just going to take
over the job. We use NFS for disks cross mounting but not running
NIS or DNS. The Operating system involves SUNOS 4.1x, Solaris 2.4 and
IRIX on SCI. What is the best way to sychronize the time inside of the
system? At moment, every work station has got it's own time.

On a book, it mentioned timed. But I could not find any related info
about this demon.

Thank you for any help.

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Zhuang Li
Earth Sciences
University of Liverpool
UK

Quote:>Hello, UNIX ADMINs

>I am very new to the UNIX admin field. Actually I am just going to take
>over the job. We use NFS for disks cross mounting but not running
>NIS or DNS. The Operating system involves SUNOS 4.1x, Solaris 2.4 and
>IRIX on SCI. What is the best way to sychronize the time inside of the
>system? At moment, every work station has got it's own time.

>On a book, it mentioned timed. But I could not find any related info
>about this demon.

>Thank you for any help.

>--
>Zhuang Li
>Earth Sciences
>University of Liverpool
>UK

Try NTP (Network Time Protocol).  We use it on our SUNS (Solaris 2.4) and it works
very well.  All the info you need is available via anonymous ftp from louie.udel.edu
in /pub/ntp.  It's kind of a magical thing to have all your systems in one time
zone :-).

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Quote:>Hello, UNIX ADMINs

>I am very new to the UNIX admin field. Actually I am just going to take
>over the job. We use NFS for disks cross mounting but not running
>NIS or DNS. The Operating system involves SUNOS 4.1x, Solaris 2.4 and
>IRIX on SCI. What is the best way to sychronize the time inside of the
>system? At moment, every work station has got it's own time.

You need to use rdate.  One host has the "master time", the others
(through a cron job, usually once a day or so) use rdate to set
their time based on the time at the master host.

Check out the man page.

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