From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 29 20:21: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E453815199 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 20:20:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00114; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 20:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37C9F808.B78F1C19@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 20:18:32 -0700 From: Doug Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Compton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time Servers References: <4.2.0.58.19990829173829.00a24690@mail.naxs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Compton wrote: > I'm running 3.2-release and I am trying to set up a time server so that > other machines both FreeBSD and Windoze can sync their clocks to my > server. I have xntpd running to the point that my server's clock is synced > with bitsy.mit.edu at bootup. What I am now needing is a way for my > servers clock to sync itself 3 or 4 times a day and then function as a > server for other machines to query. I think you're a little confused. xntpd is a daemon, it stays alive and does what you want, namely keep your clock synched to an outside source, and lets other machines synch to it. ntpdate is the program that you run before you start xntpd because it does a one time synch up to your external source to make sure xntpd has a fighting chance of succeeding. So, you want to enable ntpdate in your rc.conf file with that server in the flags variable, and enable xntpd with that server in your ntp.conf file. If this isn't clear enough, write back with *exactly* what you have in your conf files and we'll see if we can straighten things out. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message