Re: (Q) rdate or ntpdate ?

From: Timothy Murphy (tim@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 12/10/02 

From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Date: 10 Dec 2002 13:32:06 -0000

Alessandro Selli <adoro.lo.spam@libero.it> writes:

>|Is it really necessary to install a time server, as I have done?

> There are different kinds of time servers. There are time servers that
>sincronize the host time with the reference time offered by high precision
>time servers using the Network Time Protocol (NTP), or simple daemons that =
>let
>client hosts on the network read the server's system clock, no matter how
>inaccurate it might be. Both inetd and xinetd allow this latter service to=
> be
>provided. If this is all you need, you don't need any other daemon runing =
>on
>the server. Check your inetd.conf or xinetd.conf file of the files in your
>/etc/xinetd.d directory.

Thanks for your response.
That is exactly what I thought,
but I don't seem able to use the internal time server
(if there is such a thing) on my computer.
Here is the entry for /etc/xinetd.d/time

==========================================
# default: off
# description: An RFC 868 time server. This is the tcp \
# version, which is used by rdate.
service time
{
        disable = no
        type = INTERNAL
        id = time-stream
        socket_type = stream
        protocol = tcp
        user = root
        wait = no
}
==========================================

According to chkconfig, time is "on".
Yet rdate from another machine does not work.
Is there something else I should do,
or have I missed something?

Nb (1) I am not interested in accurate time-keeping
from a time-server on the internet.
My two computers are on an internal ("trusted") LAN.

(2) I actually have what I want,
by running Steve Beach's rdated.
But as you say, this should not be necessary,
according to my reading of the (scanty) documentation.

Incidentally, if that is right --
one does not need to run a time-server --
why did Steve Beach go to the trouble of writing rdated ? 

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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