I would like to synchronize two events between two (or more) wire networked Linux machines. Can I use NTP to do this?
NTP seems to be mostly focused on synchronizing to a time server, where I need two machines to be synchronized to each other. There is a subtle difference there. For example, if one machine is located half as many hops away as a second machine from the time server, I might be able to get better synchronization if I try to synchronize the two machines to each other directly instead of synchronizing both to a time server.
A slightly different question: If I were to use NTP, what would be the best way to schedule events? A cronjob or at script? Could I get better (sub second) synchronization if I were to use a library like this one.
Finally, does anyone know of any time synchronization software packages that are suited to synchronizing two (or more) machines together, not necessarily synchronizing to a time server.
Thanks for any help.