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Subject: Re: Ntpd assistance
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alden.pierre wrote:
> /etc/rc.conf contains the following:
> 
> ntpdate_enable="YES"
> ntpdate_flags="timex.cs.columbia.edu"
> xntpd_enable="YES"        # Run ntpd Network Time Protocol
> 
> /etc/ntpd.conf contains the following:
> 
> driftfile    /etc/ntp/drift
> server 65.211.109.1
> server 65.211.109.11
> server 209.51.161.238
> server 128.59.59.177
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here?  My time seems to go out of sync after 
> my FreeBSD 4.10 box has been up for a couple of hours.  Any help would 
> be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thank You
> Alden Louis-Pierre
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man ntpd and ntpdate show that these are two different things.
Ntpdate makes clock sync in restart, xntpd keeps it that way.
ntpdate, to my understanding, doesn't use the config file.
Mikko