Re: NFS share time skew too great for Make

[David Wuertele]

Rick Flower <rickf <at> ca-flower.com> writes:

> I see this at work as well on our NetApp's (disk farms) and I only see 
> messages about time skews but it doesn't hurt anything.. I'd suggest you 
> talk to them about implementing a NPD daemon on all affected machines to 
> sync the time up to a master time server.. It's very easy and fairly 
> fool proof.. That's the best plan IMHO!

You mean NTP (network time protocol) daemon, right?

If so, I agree with you.  It is very easy for a normal person to set up NTP.
Unfortunately the IT staff here refuses to cooperate.
They think that sub-one-second synchronization is good enough for everyone.

So I need to find another solution.

Dave