time sinchronization

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:08:52PM -0500, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>
>It did work on my computers in the past.
>
>Now, I maintain ubuntu server. That, it seemed, trivial thing, does not look 
>trivial anymore.
>
>Would someone be kind enough to write a short, basic recipe for that?
>
>What, if any, software should I install? Which ports should be opened? How to 
>synchronize from command line? Is time.nsrc.ca appropriate for using?

I recommend ntpdate.  I run the following via cron on an hourly basis:

ntpdate pool.ntp.org

tock.utoronto.ca is also a good choice.
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yours,

William

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