From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 25 19:45:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA23178 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 19:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA23173 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 19:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id VAA01980; Sun, 25 May 1997 21:45:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA01237; Sun, 25 May 1997 21:42:44 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 21:42:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: ron@cts.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: keeping the date current... 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 I couldn't find it in ports or at NIST. If you wouldn't mind, could you put the source up for ftp? Thanks. -- Jay On Sat, 24 May 1997 ron@cts.com wrote: ->I use a "brute force" method. I have a root crontab executed program, "settime". ->It calls a National Bureau of Standards telephone number in (I think) Fort ->Collins, CO every three days or so, after mid-night. The NBS server sends ->bytes to settime and measures the echo delay. Based on the delay, it sends ->an adjusted time and settime sets the FreeBSD clock. Accuracy in the 10 ->millisecond range. Check the "ports" distribution for "settime". If you can't ->find it, let me know and I'll hunt down and send the source to you. -> ->BTW, the call costs me $0.17 from San Diego, CA -> ->Ron -> -> ->On 23-May-97 Joseph Stein wrote: ->>>I have a cron job setup to poll several timeservers with ntpdate to keep ->>the clock on my machine somewhat current. ->> ->>However, everytime the clock is sync'd, it is adjusted by -4.xxx seconds.. ->> ->>Is there a way to tune the clock a little better? ->> ->>If so, how, ->> ->>and if the answer is xntpd, how to set it up without the authentication??? ->> ->>Thanks in advance for your help, ->> ->>joe -> ->---------------------------------- ->E-Mail: ron@cts.com ->Date: 05/24/97 ->Time: 12:13:26 -> ->This message was sent by XF-Mail ->---------------------------------- ->