Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 06:54:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> To: jimmy martin <hate00@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xntpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003150649320.41391-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <20000315071645.67137.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, jimmy martin wrote: > Ive been told that my sysdate may be messed up and to run xntpd, which i did > but do not know what it does or if it fixes my problem, any know about > xntpd? NTP = Network Time Protocol. Its used to sync the clock on a computer against the clock of another one. I use it at my job (MacOS contains an NTP client) in order to keep things running smoother. Just make sure that you've set your time zone properly before using this, or it might only make things worse. "man xntpd" for more details. Go to http://www.freebsddiary.org and search for xntpd for his article on it. I don't know if this will really help, though. I don't know enough about CVSup to be aware of any issues with time settings being a problem. However, it shouldn't hurt you to run xntpd if you have a perminent connection to the Internet. If you don't, it will cause all kinds of errors. In that case, look to use ntpdate. Its a one-time-only program that sets the time and then exits. (By comparison, xntpd will run as a daemon and keep syncing the time every 15 minutes or so.) Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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