From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 13:04:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9055237B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47C9543F75 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cinek@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 2711 invoked by uid 65534); 4 Jun 2003 20:04:06 -0000 Received: from pD951F2BB.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pD951F2BB.dip.t-dialin.net) (217.81.242.187) by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 04 Jun 2003 22:04:06 +0200 From: Martin Krzysiak To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:04:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3EDE4A67.3@rbcmail.ru> In-Reply-To: <3EDE4A67.3@rbcmail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306042204.05511.cinek@gmx.de> Subject: Re: Can I synchronise local time with some NTP-server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 20:04:09 -0000 On Wednesday 04 June 2003 21:37, Constantine wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.8. How can I synchronise my clock with some NTP > server? The time on my server right now is 4 minutes fast, and I do not > like that... Can I set up a script that would automatically synchronise > the time with some available server? I guess, You are also trying to setup ntpd, because you believe the manpage about "retired" ntpdate. But it seems ntpdate is not "retired". Just setup a cronjob which polls an ntp server. I think, ntpd does not work until you get explicit permission from the ntp-admin (you can write an email). Martin