Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:12:58 -0700 From: Dave <friend@vortex4.net> To: "Richard J. Valenta" <RJV@WEBLINKMO.COM> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digital Server 3300 hardware clock Message-ID: <20050403191258.GK15750@vortex4.net> In-Reply-To: <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110997@depot.weblinkmo.com> References: <5EEBE9C3C61D1142994C6B620C51E847110997@depot.weblinkmo.com>
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Sorry for the misdirect on ntpdate...the only think I can think is that ntp_enable must have been a valid flag at some point, 'cause I grabbed it out of an rc.conf on one of my running servers (though admittedly one that I installed with 5.2-RELEASE and upgraded later). I should have checked /etc/defaults/rc.conf before posting! 5.0-RELEASE shouldn't be used for a variety of reasons. In my experience it's horribly broken :> There are a number of security issues with it as well. For best results, bring it up to 5.3-STABLE using the instructions found at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Though my PC164SX is on 5.3-STABLE and has been crashing lately. But I think I'm having hardware issues... Dave On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:00:11AM -0500, Richard J. Valenta wrote: > > I don't know if this question is stupid, but I don't know & I'm here to learn... but why shouldn't Kyle be using 5.0-RELEASE? Because there have been other releases, or because of this particular machine? > > rjv > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav > Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 9:02 AM > To: Dave > Cc: alpha@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Digital Server 3300 hardware clock > > Dave <friend@vortex4.net> writes: > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:49:54AM -0600, Kyle S. Allender wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a Digital Server 3300 (or > > > at least I think it's a 3300). I converted this from an NT 4 server machine > > > almost 3 years ago and it's been running fine under 4.x/5.x for a very long > > > time. > > You shouldn't be running 5.0-RELEASE. > > > > However, one issue I've continually had with this machine is that the > > > hardware clock is off by almost 2 hours. Ntpd can't keep the correct time > > > because the hardware clock is too far off. > > If you ntpdate at startup, your system clock will be set to the date you get > > via ntp regardless of skew. Put the following in /etc/rc.conf: > > > > ntp_enable="YES" > > ntp_flags="-b ntp.server.here" > > ntpd_enable="YES" > > > > That should get you set up :> > > no. you want > > ntpdate_enable="YES" > ntpd_enable="YES" > > both ntpdate and ntpd use the servers listed in /etc/ntp.conf, which > should contain something like > > server europe.pool.ntp.org > server europe.pool.ntp.org > server europe.pool.ntp.org > > round-robin DNS will take care of the rest. > > obviously, if you're not in Europe, you'll want to use a different > pool. > > the official list of public ntp servers is at > > http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome > > if you just want to set the clock once, run > > # ntpdate pool.ntp.org pool.ntp.org pool.ntp.org > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav - des@des.no > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Dave Cotton friend@vortex4.net
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