From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 3:48:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 03:48:11 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ov.nl.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ov.nl.home.com [212.120.66.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6225937B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 03:48:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ricin.localnet ([212.120.85.64]) by mail.rdc1.ov.nl.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001206114755.UCID22175.mail.rdc1.ov.nl.home.com@ricin.localnet>; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:47:55 +0100 From: Danny Pansters Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:48:09 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: User Land References: <381260687.976055183523.JavaMail.root@web349-mc> In-Reply-To: <381260687.976055183523.JavaMail.root@web349-mc> Subject: Re: rc & ntp weirdness -- hourly ntpdate?? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00120612480901.08225@ricin.localnet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maybe a bit off-topic regarding your problems, but an HOURLY time update seems a bit much to me. I run it daily (from crontab, I only run ntpdate not ntpd) and it's fine. Maybe 1 or 2 minutes deviation. Is there anything wrong with using cron for this I wonder now? At some point my system time seemed to be running too fast (dmesg showed the processor being clocked on anything between 85 and 95 MHz, while its an --old-- P100). But instead of hourly ntpdate, which to me seemed madness, I found out I had to enable APM in my kernel (see LINT). That did the trick. Are you sure you're not having the same problem as I had? Greetings, Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message