From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 10:28:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA08182 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 10:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.i-connect.net (qmailr@thor.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA08172 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 10:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 469 invoked by uid 4028); 24 May 1997 19:26:40 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199705230326.UAA03806@joes.users.spiritone.com> Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 12:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: Joseph Stein Subject: RE: keeping the date current... Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ----------------------------------