[OT] network time servers
[OT] network time servers
- Subject: [OT] network time servers
- From: Dave Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:21:17 -0700
Hi folks!
I know this is way off topic, but of all the lists I'm lurking on I
couldn't think of where else to go. I've tried a book here, a google
there and even played with Apple's search engine, but haven't found
what I'm looking for yet. You folks seem to know the guts of the system
pretty well ...
If you go into System Preferences -> Date & Time, you can tell the OS
to use a network time server to synch it's time up with (it's on the
Date & Time tab in Panther, I remember it there in Jaguar also but
don't remember exactly where). By default, the system gives you some
options to synch up with Apple's time servers in the US, Asia, Europe
...
I want to start using one of our own servers instead (it's setup as a
stratum 3 NTP server, which uses a few servers to synch with including
Apple's). I know I could just change the ntp.conf file to do this, but
if someone hits that drop down bar suddenly I have no choice but to
pick Apple's servers again (it overwrites the ntp.conf file immediately
and without further provocation) ...
Anyone know where the system keeps that list of Apple's time servers?
I'd like to add my server to that list so I can switch between them ad
nauseum; is it in a plist somewhere?
(Why on earth would I want to mess with this? Our company has a number
of machines that I want synched together time-wise. I want to be a good
citizen about this and sync all our machines to one, which is synched
to the outside world. Besides, I have this old AIX server sitting here
with very little to do! I'd like it to show in that drop down list with
Apple's servers so it's easy to change back when some bozo plays with
it and messes this all up for me. Worse comes to worse, I could write
an AppleScript to change ntp.conf back, but it would be nicer if I
didn't have to. Besides, that idea was mostly to get the word
"AppleScript" in this post. :-)
Dave Stewart
Aqua~Flo Supply (Goleta CA)
dstewart at aquaflo dot com
Law of Probability Dispersal:
Whatever it is that hits the fan
will not be evenly distributed.
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