[Go-essp-tech] NTP Server and ESG Installation Script

[philip.kershaw at stfc.ac.uk]

Hi Gavin,

> or are
> you proposing simply checking that NTP is installed and/or running?

Yes some kind of sanity check would be good.  Could be difficult to specify though.

Thanks,
Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin M Bell [mailto:gavin at llnl.gov]
> Sent: 24 February 2010 17:00
> To: Kershaw, Philip (STFC,RAL,SSTD)
> Cc: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: NTP Server and ESG Installation Script
> 
> Hi Philip,
> 
> I can take a look at that.  Indeed NTP is a must for any distributed
> system.  Most systems come with NTP so are you proposing configuration
> modifications i.e. we all point to the same time clocks, which is kind
> of moot with NTP as all roads lead to the master clock anyway, 
> 
> 
> 
> philip.kershaw at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> > Hi Gavin,
> >
> >
> >
> > Running security integration tests with Luca has highlighted the need
> > for synchronisation of clocks on servers running security services.
> If
> > we don’t, errors are likely to occur with timestamp checks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a way that you can incorporate into the ESG installation
> > scripts the setting of an NTP server(s) so that host clocks are
> > synchronised?
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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