I used timed for my entire "farm" of *BSD machines, it works great.  The
timed master is a i386 machine that seems to keep time quite well, which
uses "ntpdate" in a cron job to update every 45 min.  Even the windows
based machines get updated on boot by using a "net time" command from
one of the servers running Samba (also running timed).

Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, John wrote:
> 
> > I've heard that some systems won't run ntpd if the time is off too much  -
> > that ntpd gets confused or something. Anyone else care to speak of
> > experiences of running ntpd on machines with really screwed clocks?
> 
> My 840AV can't handle "ntpd", even when lightly loaded. The PLL fails
> completely, and it just ends up stepping every "stepout" interval.
> 
> "timed" runs fine. It manages to wrestle the clock to withing ~100 mS
> most of the time. The only thing is, there are no publicly available
> timed servers on the internet, so you need to set up your own master,
> so it's not a solution if you only have one computer.
> 
> Frederick

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Pat Wendorf