From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 4 12:18:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA11619 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 12:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA11614 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 12:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-129 [207.14.72.129]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09083; Sun, 4 May 1997 10:14:56 -0800 Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 02:11:58 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Brandon Gillespie cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'ntpdate' time server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 May 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I don't want the standard xntpd server, I want a server that you can point > 'ntpdate' too along the lines of 'ntpdate foof.com' and it updates your > clock. The reason I want this server is I have a firewalled network, and > I want servers on the firewall'ed side to somehow get their time sanity > from a machine which can sync with others in the world. I figured I could > have a server outside the firewall keep in sync with other boxes on the > net, and in turn it could be a server for the firewalled side of the > network. The connectivity isn't a concern--I can handle that. My only > problem is I have no idea how to setup a server that 'ntpdate' will > recognize as such. I don't want to setup a continuous xntpd syncing > mechanism, I just want to have the firewalled boxes run ntpdate once a > night. Help? I've dickered with xntpd trying to get it to do what I want > to no avail... i'm not really into this area - but have you checked out "timed"? -------------------------------------------------------------------------