Re: [OT] network time servers
Re: [OT] network time servers
- Subject: Re: [OT] network time servers
- From: Paul Wagland <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:55:19 +0200
On Apr 15, 2004, at 21:54, Dave Stewart wrote:
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On Apr 14, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Paul Wagland offered this observation:
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> On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:21, Dave Stewart wrote:
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>> If you go into System Preferences -> Date & Time, you can tell the
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>> OS to use a network time server to synch it's time up with (it's on
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>> the Date & Time tab in Panther, I remember it there in Jaguar also
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>> but don't remember exactly where). By default, the system gives you
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>> some options to synch up with Apple's time servers in the US, Asia,
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>> Europe ...
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>> I want to start using one of our own servers instead (it's setup as
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>> a stratum 3 NTP server, which uses a few servers to synch with
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>> including Apple's). I know I could just change the ntp.conf file to
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>> do this, but if someone hits that drop down bar suddenly I have no
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>> choice but to pick Apple's servers again (it overwrites the ntp.conf
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>> file immediately and without further provocation) ...
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> Although it won't let you switch, I am using Jaguar and when I edited
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> the ntp.conf, and go to date/time to pick a server, it shows me both
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> servers, my internal and the apple one.
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Interesting. In Panther this file is overwritten by the selection you
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make in the System Preferences screen.
This is true. However, I just discovered what you alluded to in this
page, that you can type what you want, and if you type the name of two
or three servers seperated by a space then it will place all of those
servers in your ntp.conf for you. I guess more would work as well, but
I didn't test to see if there was any limit.
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I did get an idea from another list that I never thought to try myself
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... you can type the server name directly in the "popup button"!
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Although it doesn't make it part of the popup list itself, it's an
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easy solution that'll work good enough for me!
Cheers,
Paul
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