From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 13:32:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (unknown [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A83014FF9 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:32:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.102]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990708203452.ZCXV112692.mta2-rme@wocker>; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:34:52 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Steve Friedrich" Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:31:59 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Time sync Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199907081440.KAA16447@laker.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990708203452.ZCXV112692.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 Jul 99, at 10:39, Steve Friedrich wrote: > I've been messing with this for a couple days and have read the man > pages for xntpd, ntpdate, timed, etc. to no avail. Have you read http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/xntpd.htm > I want to know the "best" method to use to sync my 486 box via the > Internet, and I want it to act as a time server to my local machines. I > have been using ntpdate manually on occasion to sync time from > otc1.psu.edu. But I don't know how to make the box a time server for my > local net. I've tried xntpd, but then it takes the port and prevents > ntpdate from running. And I still couldn't get it to serve time to a > local FreeBSD box running 3.2. As someone said, don't run both. xntpd will be enough. > This is just a home network and time isn't critical, but I want to sync > time from the Net, maybe once a day or once a week, but serve time to > local machines any time they request it. If you are running ppp with dial on demand, xntpd might cause unwanted dialings. If that's the case, I'm told modifyin the filter will fix this. http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/pppfilters.htm -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message