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lec maj wrote:
> 
> I have 2 Sco 5.05 boxes and wanted to syncronize them in time. They are
> on a local lan and there is no connection to outside world. There is one
> trick though. If either machine ever dies it has to come up and get the
> time from the other one that was already up. So that means that somehow
> both have to be master and slave at the same time.
> 
> I am mainly concerned on how i should set up the /etc/ntp.conf
> 
> Thank you
> Lec

I think I would consider using ntpdate running in cron on both machines
pointed at the other system.  On my network, I use it once each day but
you can set them to run more often if better synchronization is needed.
Then in each start up you could add a  line to sync to the other. I
would probably add a file named S99sync in the /etc/rc2.d directory with
the ntpdate command.

Note that ntpdate won't work if xntpd is running, check man for both.

Hope that is some help.

Steve Rothstein

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