ntp server - anyone done it?

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 02 Feb 2003 22:18:28 -0700


> I'd like to sync my PC's to at least one of my boxes on our local
> network. In order to keep track, I was thinking of setting up my main
> box to run a montly cron job to get the time from a stratum 2 server.
> Does this sound like a reasonable thing to do? How have some of the
> other list members done it?

I use ntpdate once a night to keep my linux machines up to date.  The time drift 
seems to be exacerbated on multi-cpu systems (my quad PPro machine falls off 
more than a minute a day).

Only problem I had to overcome was getting the sync to go past the NAT box (the 
-u switch helps with this).