From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 7:41:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2206614CC5 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ibjoe@home.com) Received: from c392156-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com ([24.1.95.226]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991201154116.ZBGM23946.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c392156-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:41:16 -0800 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19991201154115.00d098d8@mail> X-Sender: ibjoe@mail X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 07:41:15 -0800 To: Don Read From: Joe Bo Subject: RE: time synching PCs to FreeBSD machine Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Read, Thank you very much! That was it! Don't know why I didn't figure that one out on my own . Your help was much appreciated! Thanks! Joe Bo At 03:32 AM 12/1/99 -0600, you wrote: > >On 01-Dec-99 Joe Bo wrote: >> Hi. I am runnng FreeBSD v3.2 on a 486 machine. >> >> It has 2 network cards, one on the internet and one on my private net. >> I use natd and ipfw. >> >> The FreeBSD machine keeps time set with ntpdate (not ntpd) to a local >> server on a regular basis using cron. >> >> I want my PCs on my private net to sync their time to my FreeBSD >> machine. I found plenty of PC programs, I picked NetTime. These >> programs typically say the server should be "RFC868" compliant. >> >> So for a FreeBSD timeserver I start timed. like: >> timed -M -F (my_FreeBSD_machine_name) -n (my_net_name) >> This works OK, I get a message "this machine is master". >> And ps ax shows it is running ok. >> >> But the PC program says "can not get time from this server". I know >> the PC program works because it works with other servers on the internet. >> Sometimes I get a message: >> /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP (my_host_ip):37 from (my_PC_ip):nnnn >> (I do have log_in_vain turned on). >> >> I'm no UNIX expert and I've been banging my head on the wall about this >> for a few days now, so I sure could use some help. If anyone has any ideas >> about this I'd appreciate it much! >> > >forget timed, thats something else. > >in your /etc/inetd.conf enable: >time stream tcp nowait root internal >time dgram udp wait root internal > >Regards, >--- >Don Read dread@calcasieu.com >EDP Manager dread@texas.net >Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX >-- No Coffe No Peace. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message