> I decided to get the time syncronization for all those boxes. In the > gateway machine, i managed to get the following in crontab: > > */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/rdate -4ncva > ptbtime1.ptb.de | /usr/bin/logger -t NTP
<snip> > Everything is working ok except because of those two boxes always have > a time about 20/22 seconds after my gateway time, like in the output > for date command: Have you considered running ntpd instead of rdate? If nothing more, the daemon removes the need to have crontabs updating the clock. I have no explanation for why the times are about 20 seconds out other than the gateway might be taking its time to wake up the rdate daemon. Cheers, A
