It all started so simply: I was going to set up a little Xen instance to be my next cluster submit host, and needed a spare address for it:
I started setting up an instance for ch208i.cae.tntech.edu, since it was no longer on the Xen host like it was several months ago. Crap, the reason it’s [...]
Time synchronization makes lots of things work better, including:
make
Kerberos
tar
syslog
We’ve got a central NTP server on campus, and I’m using that to sync from. Puppet handles ntp and ntpdate configuration on the managed systems. Components of that setup:
ntp.pp and ntpdate.pp classes imported from puppet/classes
Virtualization-detecting facter recipe (originally from here, but also included below since it’s short [...]