August, 2008

Poor man’s NTP

Yesterday I had to quickly (more or less) synchronize the clocks of a handful of computers I was working on. I didn’t have the time to work out an NTP based solution, so I came up with the following simple trick:


for i in `seq 1 6`
do
ssh root@192.168.1.20${i} date `date +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`
done

Needless to say… it worked. :-)

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