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
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