From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 6:18:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C2514DBE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 06:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11lv3u-000FNB-00; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:18:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA47046; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:18:54 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:18:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd In-Reply-To: <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So what makes sense for keeping time on a laptop with a PP connection once a day? I tried setting it once, and ended up with GMT (Zulu Time) and it took me a while to get the zone right. Now i just have a little script called jtime that i run whenever that calles ntpdate. Does this make sense? On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Nov 10), Jonathon McKitrick said: >> I'm trying to sync my clock with the timeservers out there, so i'm >> using ntpdate. But i tried xntpd first, and now it seems like it is >> running every few minutes. I noticed this when my ppp connection is >> down, it complains that it can't find any route to host. I don't see >> a cron entry, but i can't seem to find the process that starts it. >> Where else should i look? /var/run shows it's pid, that's all i >> know. > >xntpd is a daemon; therefore when you run it it backgrounds itself and >constantly updates the time in the background. If you want to stop it, >kill the process. > >-- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message