Re: NFS share time skew too great for Make

[Rick Flower]

David Wuertele wrote:
> 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?

Yes.. My mistake!

> 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.

Too bad.. I hate it when the IT department won't cooperate.. (8-<