SOLVED - Re: NTP

[John]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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> John wrote:
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>> In Edgy-Eft, is there a way of setting a pc as an NTP client? I want my 
>> laptop to get its time from my server.
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>> The rider to this question is that my server will soon be converted to 
>> Ubuntu and will need to get its time from a web-based time server and 
>> also act as my network's local server so I will looking to set that as 
>> both NTP client and server.
>>
>> Any thoughts, please, as I haven't found an NTP service in synaptic.
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>     Also don't forget about pool.ntp.org; the people that seem to
> maintain the software are also organizing public ally-available NTP
> services, world-wide. There are several choices, mostly based on your
> location, but if you'll point out "0.pool.ntp.org" for your time server,
> it'll cycle through the pool of NTP servers offering the service.
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>     And once you get set up and comfortable with Ubuntu, you might want
> to add yourself to that pool, too.
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>     Everything's at http://www.ntp.org/
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Thanks, folks. I'll follow that through. The pool idea looks interesting.

J