Time Synchronization

[sjsp]

Hi

We have solaris, ibm and sgi workstations. Currently the solaris and aix synch their time with an NTP Server using the ntpdate command in cron. The NTP server is a local server. I would like the SGI's to do the same but the ntpdate command soes not exist in irix 6.5.

Has anyone got any suggestions?

TIA

 

[amittech]

Hi sarb,
Well if u would like to sync. all ur SGI's then i've a solution. just do the following.
1) select a base machine, lets say MA. this is the machine to which all SGI's should look for time.
2) run as root
a) "chkconfig timed off"
b) "chkconfig timeslave off"
3) Select a client, lets say MC.
4) run as root
a) "chkconfig timed off"
b) "chkconfig timeslave on"
5) put the following text in a file "/etc/config/timeslave.options"
" -H MA -r 90"
MA indicates the server (host) name discussed in pt.1
6) reboot MC or issue "/usr/etc/timeslave -H MA -r 90" on the command prompt.

this procedure is for syncing all ur client SGI's to a particular SGI.