R: [OpenAFS] Where is runntp?

[Derek Atkins]

"Emiliano Bruni" <bruni@micso.it> writes:

> you say that i should:
> 
> - "bos delete machine_name -instance /usr/afs/bin/runntp -cell cellname"

yes.

> - enable ntpd service boot startup using "chkconfig ntpd on"

yes.

> - add "ntpdate afs_server_name " to clients crontable to sync time every n
> minutes

Well...  You can either run 'ntp' on your clients (peering to your AFS
servers), or you can run ntpdate at boot time and use the AFS client's
'settime' ability to keep time in sync with the AFS servers.

> or is there a better way to configure ntpd (client and server) using bos?

Not using BOS.

> >You don't need it. Use ntp instead - it is newer and probably better.
> >runntp was once included because (x)ntp&co were not yet widely used (or
> >not available or more complicated or so).

-derek

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