ellozy@FARBER.HARVARD.EDU (Mohamed Ellozy) (06/12/91)
My apologies for a time related question that does not deal with NTP. I can keep excellent time on my UNIX and VMS hosts with NTP, and totally acceptable time on my PCs using the UDP time protocol at boot time. Is there an implementation of time protocol for Macs? If so, where can I get it from? Any aditional hints much appreciated, as I am very new to Macs. Mohamed
hintz@oz.ucop.edu (Richard Hintz) (06/13/91)
In article <9106112350.AA25184@farber.harvard.edu> ellozy@FARBER.HARVARD.EDU (Mohamed Ellozy) writes: Is there an implementation of time protocol for Macs? If so, >where can I get it from? Check out Pete Resnick's Network Time available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Richard Hintz opsrjh@uccvma.ucop.edu University of California
ellozy@FARBER.HARVARD.EDU (Mohamed Ellozy) (06/13/91)
A couple of days ago I sent the following message to the list: > My apologies for a time related question that does not deal with NTP. > > I can keep excellent time on my UNIX and VMS hosts with NTP, and > totally acceptable time on my PCs using the UDP time protocol at boot > time. Is there an implementation of time protocol for Macs? If so, > where can I get it from? > > Any aditional hints much appreciated, as I am very new to Macs. > > Mohamed > The response was rapid and helpful. I got so many "me too" messages that I decided to mail a summary of what I found out. There seems to be only one program, Network Time, written by Pete Resnick, which can be ftp'ed from either sumex-aim.stanford.edu in directory mac-info/cp (NOT cdev, now gone) or from wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory mirrors/info-mac/cp (again, not cdev). There were no real problems (other than my MacIgnorance, local gurus helped). MacTCP must be installed, and the domain name server should be configured into it (else you must use numerical addresses). More tricky is that the timezone information comes from the Map utility. This is described in the long document, but not in the brief Read me file. Thanks to John Palkovic for solving that problem for me. I have two minor problems. There is only room for one timeserver, so if it is down the user is out of luck. Also, there is a possibility of periodic updates, at an interval specified in days. Would be nice to have finer granularity. Normally, I may add, it is run at boot. All in all a fine little piece of software. Mohamed
resnick@COGSCI.UIUC.EDU (Pete Resnick) (06/14/91)
ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy) writes: >There seems to be only one program, Network Time, written by Pete >Resnick, which can be ftp'ed from either sumex-aim.stanford.edu in >directory mac-info/cp (NOT cdev, now gone) or from wuarchive.wustl.edu >in directory mirrors/info-mac/cp (again, not cdev). >... >I have two minor problems. There is only room for one timeserver, so if >it is down the user is out of luck. Also, there is a possibility of >periodic updates, at an interval specified in days. Would be nice to have >finer granularity. Normally, I may add, it is run at boot. I want to thank Mohamed for this unsolicited plug of my prgram. I would like to say in response to his problems that Network 2.0, which is due to come out "real soon now" will allow up to four time servers and full System 7 support. Other improvements, such as the finer granularity of the interval are still being solicited and considered. Thanks again, Mohamed. pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD
bvd@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au (Brian Denehy) (06/15/91)
In article <9106131349.AA20100@farber.harvard.edu> ellozy@FARBER.HARVARD.EDU (Mohamed Ellozy) writes: >A couple of days ago I sent the following message to the list: > > >There seems to be only one program, Network Time, written by Pete >Resnick, which can be ftp'ed from either sumex-aim.stanford.edu in >directory mac-info/cp (NOT cdev, now gone) or from wuarchive.wustl.edu >in directory mirrors/info-mac/cp (again, not cdev). > One further possibility if you have an Appletalk/IP gateway such as a K-box or Webster multiport is the timelord/tardis combination available in the multigate directory on munnari.oz.au . Timelord is a control panel application which runs as a server on Macs or on a Unix host with the CAP libraries installed, and tardis is a chooser application which sets the time at boot or any other time you call it up. Works in a Mac like fashion, with multiple servers available per visible zone. But I don't think you can set it up to run periodically by itself, which would be useful. -- Brian Denehy, ACSnet: bvd@cc.adfa.oz Computing Services Internet: bvd@adfa.oz.au Australian Defence Force Academy UUCP:!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ccadfa.oz!bvd Northcott Dr. Campbell ACT Australia 2600 +61 6 268 8141 +61 6 268 8150 (Fax)