Setting up NTP (the Network Time Protocol) on Solaris 10 is very simple but requires a few less than obvious steps that can trip up someone looking to set up a basic NTP daemon to sync their local machine. The first step is to install the NTP packages SUNWntpr and SUNWntpu, both of which are …
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Time Sync on VMWare Based Linux
In many cases it can be quite difficult to accuracy keep time on a virtualized operating system due to the complex interactions between the hardware, host operating system, virtualization layer and the guest operating system. In my case I found that running Red Hat Linux 5 (CentOS 5) on VMWare Server 1.0.8 resulted in an …