Keeping your server time accurate
crankycronos posted this on Dec 22nd 2006 at 7:56 am under Server Fixes
Just about almost every activity on a server has some sort of relationship to time. Either through it’s execution, naming convention, or if for no other purpose but logging. [url]http://pool.ntp.org[/url] was created to assist servers in keeping accurate time.
The [url]http://pool.ntp.org[/url] project is a big virtual cluster of timeservers striving to provide reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of clients without putting a strain on the big popular timeservers.
If you wish to keep your server time accurate:
SSH into the server as root,
wget http://www.customensimbackup.com/download/fix_ntp chmod +x fix_ntp chown root:root fix_ntp ./fix_ntp
If you wish to participate and contribute back to the linux community:
Join the pool.ntp.org and then SSH into the server as root,
wget http://www.customensimbackup.com/download/fix_ntp chmod +x fix_ntp chown root:root fix_ntp ./fix_ntp --ntp-server
Wait about 20 minutes, and then add your server IP to your account.
The bandwidth usage is small, and this is one of the very simplest ways to contribute to a free open source community with absolutely little or no effort on your part.
