From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 11:39:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA03289 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA03283 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17942; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:39:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:39:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Roger P. Johnson" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I synchronize FreeBSD time to a Solaris 2.5.1 machine ? In-Reply-To: <971030162336.280.9f7.31707@aurora.HIRSHFIELDS.9A0C66027901527E> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Roger P. Johnson wrote: > I know this can't be that hard, but how do I set the times on my > FreeBSD network to that of a master time keeper such as the Solaris box > I have ? > > I've read about xntpd, ntpdate on FreeBSD, tried implementing them > but end up getting messages something like "no master to synchronize > with". You have to set up xntpd on both the FreeBSD and the Solaris box. If you have a cisco router nearby I've found that some of them run sync servers too. This is the NTP home page: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major