From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 7: 8:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72701521D for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:08:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991127195741.13573@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:57:41 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: big-sky@altavista.net, Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: XNTP help Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <000001bf38f4$62c7cc20$0201010a@cmr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <000001bf38f4$62c7cc20$0201010a@cmr.net>; from Mark Einreinhof on Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 10:28:06AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 November 1999 at 10:28:06 -0600, Mark Einreinhof wrote: > OK, I'm getting really frustrated. Reading the man for xntpd, I'm left > with the impression that xntpd goes out and gets the time sync every > now and then. However, on my machine, it keeps losing time. After a > reboot, the time is fixed, but then slowly moves ahead of the correct > time. Currently it is 1hr 14minutes ahead and I just rebooted it last > night. > > ps -ax displays: > 257 ?? S > Entry in rc.conf: > xntpd -b -c /etc/ntp.conf -f /etc/ntp.drift Why have you done this? You shouldn't have any commands in rc.conf. You should have: xntpd_enable="YES" # Run xntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO). The other defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf are correct. But this shouldn't be your problem. > Entry ntp.conf: > server tick.uh.edu Are you sure that it's accepting your requests? > Do I need to set up a cron job for this? No. > Did I type something wrong? I can't see anything. What does your /var/log/messages say on the subject? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message