Re: Netatalk and NFS


Subject: Re: Netatalk and NFS
From: Tim Carlson (tim@santafe.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 11:36:48 EST


On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthew Keller wrote:

> > As for the time syncing I would agree that it is important to keep time
> > current among machines that are NFSing things around. Recent
> > versions of GNU "make" really complain if the time is different. If you
> > aren't using ntp or some such utility, you should be :)
>
> *nod* On an hourly CRON task, IMHO.

Slightly off topic

<preach>

IMHO that is a horrible method
Please please please look at using ntp. It will save you much pain esp if
the machine you are syncing has bad clock skew. Even after you do your
"rdate -s machinename" you are still out of sync.

</preach>

Tim



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