On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 21:07, R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Joshua Jensen wrote: > > > Can you provide an example? > > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:56:13AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:12:49AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > > As a compromise how about setting up ntp, etc. based on the timeserver info > > > > in the dhcp server? Would this be workable? Granted it would not work for > > > > machines installed in a non-dhcp environment but it would be a start. > > I have reviewed the man pages for dhcpd and dhcpd.conf when > this thread started. While there is a mechnism fo rhanding out > TZ offset, I m not aware, nor do they disclose any parameter > for handing out, or for a dhcp client to receive and use, > ntpserver information. >From my dhcpd.conf: option ntp-servers ntp; This works perfectly post boot with both system-config-time and dhclient. Certainly in the case of dhclient if that option is present it will build a functional ntp.conf -- Tim Fletcher .~. /V\ L I N U X email: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx // \\ >Don't fear the penguin< irc: Night-Shade on Quakenet /( )\ ^^-^^ Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams